Snow day joy.

Our first significant snowfall came on December 23rd, just as I was wrapping up my Christmas shopping.  We hunkered down for the snowstorm and welcomed a generously white Christmas.  The day after Christmas we drove down to SoCal for a healthy dose of Vitamin C before returning to more snow a week later.  And more snow.  And then some more.  We had gotten back a day before school was to resume and actually found ourselves with an extra week of winter break.  That’s five snow days, peeps!  There were a lot of Boiseans going stir-crazy but since our family had had a week of warm weather in San Diego to break it up, we reveled in the uncharacteristic winter.  It helped that our heater worked properly and our car has 4-wheel drive so we could make it out for a Costco run successfully, despite the dismal job our county does in snow removal.  Truly, this was a winter to remember!  Snow forts, sledding, ice-skating – all outside our front door.