It goes without saying that when parents are prepared for an event - it most likely will not happen. Thats why we drive around with tiny potties, diapers, first aid kits, extra granola bars, and applesauce packs in our car. It's why at the end of each season we pack up four pairs of hardly used snow boots to send to good will. Our little part of the world is nestled between two rather cozy hills - and those hills do all they can to keep massive amounts of snowfall off of our streets - to the dismay of every school age student in the county.
The first winter that the girls could "play" in the snow we regaled ourselves with a multitude of mittens, hats, pants, coats, and boots. I believe we used them once. The year after , if memory serves, we were startling unprepared (discouraged by the lack of snow the prior year), as such we missed the biggest snow of the season. It seems the more prepared we were for snow, the less snow we got. So, much to the disappointment of four little kiddos on Rosebud Street, four new pairs of goulashes complete with winter welly socks have been sitting unused. Until this Sunday!
