{"id":6340,"date":"2012-12-09T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2012-12-09T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:47:07","slug":"winter-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=6340","title":{"rendered":"Winter has arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was abducted by aliens. \u00a0That’s the only explanation that makes any sense. \u00a0It’s more likely than a Shannen that has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of snow like I have for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

I’ve said it before. \u00a0I. Do. Not. LIke. Snow. \u00a0Or winter at all, actually.<\/p>\n

But this year, I’ve had ants in my pants about it’s delayed arrival and wanting nothing but to send Wes to the window to look outside and see his expression when h notices the white stuff has blanketed the ground overnight. \u00a0He’s 2 and a half and is in the beautiful stage where he is starting to ‘get’ all the things that we adults cherish about childhood. \u00a0Christmas, and wintertime in general, fill him with a sense of awe at this stage, and I’m so excited to get to watch it all unfold.<\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, much to my surprise, it started snowing in the early afternoon. \u00a0Not just snow, but beautiful snow! \u00a0Giant flaked snow. \u00a0Maybe the biggest, fluffiest flakes I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

As soon as Wes was up from his nap, I got my wish. \u00a0We sent him to the back door to look out and he yelled, “SNOW!! \u00a0It’s snowing!” \u00a0And not 5 minutes later, both kids (and both parents) were dressed in their gear and enjoying the mild weather.<\/p>\n

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And what comes naturally with fluffiest snow? \u00a0Snowman building!!<\/p>\n

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I even dug out the AMAZING $9 snowman kit I picked up last winter. \u00a0Unfortunately, we had a pitiful snowman season in 2012 and it didn’t get used…until now. \u00a0So adorable.<\/p>\n

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So proud!<\/p>\n

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He is cute. \u00a0Or was. \u00a0It was a little TOO warm and Frosty keeled over an hour later. \u00a0But the kids were inside, sipping on hot chocolate with marshmallows and were none the wiser.<\/p>\n

I hear we are expecting more snow tonight. \u00a0Perhaps Frosty will get a second chance tomorrow. \u00a0But if not, there’s a looooong winter ahead of us and many more opportunities in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was abducted by aliens. \u00a0That’s the only explanation that makes any sense. \u00a0It’s more likely than a Shannen that has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of snow like I have for the past few weeks. I’ve said it before. \u00a0I. Do. Not. LIke. Snow. \u00a0Or winter at all, actually. But this year, I’ve had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,37,49,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}