I’ve been bogged down in the SERIOUS, time to let the inner kid out.

I woke up to a text saying all schools were cancelled,even Fort Lewis,  basicly town was shut down. OOOOO this means, lots of snow! I opened my black out curtains to a lovely winter landscape. Heavy, wet snow.

That meant starting the day off building snowmen. I built my “typical Rachel” snowman, with the yellow shades. As I was rumaging through my scarf/hat basket looking for a scarf..I ran accross my moose hat! Ah, moose hat and a red scarf would be ADORABLE…..a second snowman Morty was created. It stayed around 39 most of the day, so much time was spent re-sticking body parts, mostly noses and buttons.

 

*Snap* *Snap* *Snap*, I think I captured their personalities, now it was time to warm up and dry out my gloves. Earlier in the week I had opened pumpkin for kitty, so I might as well use it up. Google which never leads me astray recommended this pumpkin muffin recipie…so I gave that a try (yum, by the way). While that was in the oven I made myself the most over the top hot chocolate, with whipcream and sprinkles. No, it was not the whipcream and sprinkles that made it “over the top”(It’s the only way to drink any hot drink). It was this chocolate walrus my mom sent me I tried adding ontop of the whip cream. Unfortunately he was a touch heavy and sank right to the bottom.

Then I took a mid-day, adult break. Had to get stuff done. (Snow removal, bank, the city dump, making calls for bills-etc)

Back to kid mode. That meant throwing a batch of cookies in the oven and getting my night sledding on! This time with a big inflatible reindeer, headlamp and a sweet bobsled louge style run. Its just to the side of our house, but the top is steep so you pick up speed and go a long ways!

**Night sledding mountain roads is my top favorite type of sledding. You pick up good speed but mostly just get to sled a really long ways, there’s no snow being sprayed in your face, its typically not just straight, but winding. Walking back up is not the best part, but you go FOREVER and its so fun! Flying through the crisp night, just the sound of your sled gliding over the icey road.

Our neighbhorhood louge run, was a close second to road sledding. My hoobie was just finishing up his night run and joined me for a few runs, deciding it was quite fun. I can’t wait to go back again, tomorrow night!

I’m back inside for the night, listening to some upbeat music. It keeps my spirits lifted, upbeat, in a playful mood. I’m feeling refreshed!