Dashing through the snow…
December 2, 2007 – 5:45 amToday, this first day of December, it is SNOWING in Seattle!!
WHOOPEE!
I decide that, what with all the snow and all, we MUST get our Christmas tree.
Now our typical plan involves driving out to the “country” and cutting down a tree at a tree farm. But roads are bad and crazy-old-me has this romantic notion of WALKING to get our tree in the GENTLY FALLING SNOW.
It will be just like days of YORE!
(I feel a Fa-la-la coming on)
Lucky for us there’s an elementary school just a few blocks away where the PTA has set up a tree farm. So we get on our winter clothes… sort of. I forget my gloves and Jay is wearing a thin Santa hat and fleece jacket. But hey, it’s the first snow of the year! We can’t be expected to remember how to dress!
We skip down the sidewalk, enjoying the huge fluffy flakes patting our cheeks.
THUD! CJ hits me with a snowball. Well, really it’s more of a DIRT ball with a tiny bit of snow mixed in. But I don’t mind. It’s SNOWING!
Here’s the thing about getting a Christmas tree in the snow, romantic as the notion may be. There are some BASIC FACTS of snow-physics and tree-carrying that I neglected to take into consideration.
First of all, trees are HEAVY. Secondly I am WEAK and WIMPY, and Thirdly I am not wearing gloves. Hence, Jay gets the privilege of man-handling the rather large tree down the sidewalk.
(He is so MANLY with the MAN-HANDLING!)
Now the next thing that slipped my mind is that snow, beauteous and joyful though it may be, has a nasty little habit of falling onto your glasses and making it nearly impossible to see.
(it’s hard to be a nerd)
Also, it tends to fall down your neck where it’s COLD and MELTY. This is not a pleasant thing.
Additionally, snow melts on your jeans, leaving you with WET JEANS, which inevitably leads to COLD LEGS.
Cold legs, wet glasses, freezing fingers, and hauling a heavy tree through the streets of Seattle while SOMEONE takes pictures makes Jay an unhappy boy.
But I tend to believe that it’s ALL WORTH IT IN THE END.
Of course, that’s exactly the kind of attitude that gets me in trouble in the first place.
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By Smilingmom.com on Dec 1, 2007 | Reply
Fantastic Post!! I noticed that CJ was a champ and did a great job carrying the tree with Dad!! Awesome. Today we finally cut down ours as well. :-)
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By Annie on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Hilarious!
Miss E keeps looking out the window here asking ‘is it going to snow today?’ - In Central Florida? I somehow don’t think so lol!
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By Carla on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
I KNOW, I live in Lake Forest Park, wen have about 3 inches and i’ts snowing right now, at 9am. groovy!
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By Chilihead2 on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
You always find the hilarity in ever situation.
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By Midwest Mommy on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Oh my gosh! That is a first. Too funny.
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By She Likes Purple on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
This was hilarious. Glad you got a tree.
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By Walking together with Christ on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
I am glad i found your blog - you are hilarious! Merry Christmas
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By Not the Queen on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
You’ve got to come out to my neck of the woods every once in awhile; then you’ll get used to the snow. In fact, you’ll be so used to it that you won’t need gloves, a hat, or a heavy winter coat all the time.
I miss the West side!
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By All Adither on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Ha ha. I was going to do a “Snowing in Seattle” post too, but never got around to it. Yours was well done though. Mine would’ve paled.
http://www.AllAdither.com
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By Eve on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Ha Ha hA! This was hilarious! love all the picture/cartoons!
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By My Semblance of Sanity on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
This was GREAT!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Loved the documentary style!
:)
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By Cindy on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Oh what fun! How I envy you with the snow. I would give anything to see my kids playing in the snow for just one day. We live in Florida and my kids have never seen snow(two boys 9 and 6). I grow up in New York so one day of snow is all we need.
So glad I found your site.
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By Cathy on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Love the pics!
I also have a tendency to revise memories into a much rosier form, although I have precious few of snow!
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By JaniceNW on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
Thanks my Nanners friend. Some weeks suck, some don’t. Love the Holiday Seattle skyline!! Looks great.
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By Sarah on Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
LOVE the modified banner and the post! You are the photoshop queen! I added photoshop to my Christmas list and used your blog to show my husband why I needed it. He blew big red soda out of his nose!
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By Amy on Dec 3, 2007 | Reply
These pictures are adorable! And you have snow!! Here in the south we went to the TN Titans game yesterday wearing windbreakers (it was 65). Jeesh. We’ll get snow in February when no one wants it.
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By magnolia mama on Dec 3, 2007 | Reply
I think you should make this an annual tradition.
The snow was beautiful….now we have rain. And lots and lots of rain. Oh…and I think we’re going to get some wind.
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By Rachel on Dec 3, 2007 | Reply
Hilarious post!! I wish we could get some snow. Not alot, just enough!
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By Amy [Taste Like Crazy] on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply
I’m completely jealous right now of that snow!
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By Heather, Queen of Shake-Shake on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply
Um, snow? What’s that? Because on the 1st, it was 70 degrees.
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By Carla Stream on Dec 5, 2007 | Reply
I enjoyed how you kept the camera shots going when you might have helped a tad. Hilarious!
In the last two days I think we have received 8 inches of the white, fluffy stuff. The fake tree is still packed away.
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By Bethany on Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Oh my gosh, you have me in stitches over here! I love your captions :)
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