Winter Has Arrived

We woke to the snow falling and blowing.  School called a Snow Day.  By the end of the day we had 18"+.  The first whopper of the season.  Alix spent the afternoon digging out a snow fort while trying to ignore her annoying brother.  Neko was in and out too many times to count.  He'd come in long enough to thaw out all the snow-clumps he'd accumulate between his toes and in his long hair.  He was in his element.  I spent hours shoveling, and shoveling, and shoveling with a bit of cupcake baking thrown in.