Snow

Surprise! It snowed last night, and the resulting inch of powdery stuff stuck all day. I saw it starting and experienced a wave of dread, which evaporated when I remembered where we are! In Maryland, this would be the beginning of who knows how much snow (it was different every year), with rather scary storms, school closures, difficult travel, and frequent power outages. Our record was four and a half consecutive days of no electricity. That was truly rough. In Seattle, as in the rest of the developed world that I have experienced, a long power outage is maybe four hours. No worries.

Today the kids were eager to get out and throw snowballs, so we went over to Greenlake and took a bunch of cute winter photos. Jordan actually agreed to wear his coat. Aaron, once he had mastered his club-foot boots, was dying to jump in the lake and see the ducks up close.




We had fun until we got cold, and then we zipped back home for some holiday cooking. It's a food-gift year and I'm making orangettes, peppermint candy, salted caramels, peppermint bark (with the kids), and if I still have any energy left after that, peppermint patties and candied ginger. I've never made any of these things before, which is half the fun. The orangettes are done - came out great.