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Original poster

to think that all this moaning about the snow should STOP, as in fact, it is all here to help us make fab memories for our children.....!!!

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 00:01

how many of you can remember the fun and wonder of the snowy days from our childhood???

I can......all about 6 of them, from differing years, and despite lots of my childhood being crap, the ones filled with snow are actually pretty much my best memories of chidhood, if not my ONLY fabulous memories of childhood!!!

days like these are so very rare, even my eldest DD can only remember 4 times of playing in the snow.......when she was 3, 7 or 8, the time we took them to luxembourg for new years and there was 2ft of snow, and then again a dusting when we returned that same year (she was 11).

and now this year.

5 memories

5 to add to her childhood, and her childhood is so close to being over...........she is 15 this year.

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo

IMVHO

we should revel in this and quit moaning.............we are making memories.

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 03/02/2009 00:07

I so agree with you Psychomum. The only moan I have is that we have hardly any of it yet. Seems like we are the only corner of England that hasn't. It would make a cat laugh to see the reporters on our local news tonight desperately trying to talk up a local angle on the big weather story!
I want my children to be able to make a snowman and have a snowball fight. Maybe we will get more snow in the night.

ProfessorCalculus · 03/02/2009 00:08

I totally agree.
5 love snow. So what if we can't get in to work for a day or two. Me and the boys are putting on our thermals and going out to play in it tomorrow.

ProfessorCalculus · 03/02/2009 00:08

I love snow, not 5.

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 00:09

we havenlt had as much as many either.

enough to make snowmen tho......we now have no snow left in the garden!

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ProfessorCalculus · 03/02/2009 00:10

We've still got 8 inches in the garden

cheesesarnie · 03/02/2009 00:10

i love snow.

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 00:14

@ 8inches

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BlackLetterDay · 03/02/2009 00:15

I agree, I have always loved snow and would stay up to see any snow if the sky looked orange. For DD (5) this is her only experience of snow, I think ds may be too young at 2.

I remember knee deep snow when I was a child (going to school in it) making snow forts with the local kids and mad snowball fights. I think our kids deserve these memories too.

Bollocks to work, school etc, get sledging, although we don't have a sledge so I am quite sad about that lol (even though dd is ill)

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 00:18

oh my boys were asking for skis/sleds this evening when we were watching the news.......there were lots of pics of people skiing to work etc.

made me wish we had stuff like that saved for such days.

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Froginmythroat · 03/02/2009 00:19

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OneLieIn · 03/02/2009 00:20

Yes, you are right. Kids are happy. (me, I am pissed off, but hey if I don't get the great job I have an interview for, I will have a whole lot more time to spend with the kids).

BlackLetterDay · 03/02/2009 00:29

Kids always remember snow btw, it was just so lovely today, I walked to the shops and got the bus back and there were so many families enjoying the snow. I love it now too, I have been in my back garden loads enjoying the silence and the view, sigh if only it could happen every year.

TinkerBellesMumandFiFi2 · 03/02/2009 01:29

YABU. I can't go outside in this weather as I'm too unstable and my crutches don't help and my daughter acts like a weather vein, she was admitted to the children's ward an hour or so before the snow started to fall with her asthma. Tomorrow I will be home alone with a NB and sick toddler, if Tink is taken ill I will be totally stuffed!

I'd love to appreciate the snow, unfortunately we're not well enough to.

TinkerBellesMumandFiFi2 · 03/02/2009 01:30

YANBU, if you well enough to get out in it, enjoy it and make the most of it, take the opportunity! Some of us would love to.

Califrau · 03/02/2009 01:44

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MarsLady · 03/02/2009 02:03

Sorry psycho... I hate snow!

The kids went out and loved it! I stayed in... I hate it! [rasp!!!!!!!!!!]

roisin · 03/02/2009 02:14

I love snow. We've none here, never do: it's too coastal.

twinsetandpearls · 03/02/2009 06:46

where does one buy a sled

FourArms · 03/02/2009 06:53

Somewhere like Homebase? We've got one in the shed that my parents gave us, but we got nowhere near enough in the 10 mins it snowed for here to use it.

I can remember three occasions it snowed when I was little. Once my mum pulled us to school on a sledge, once we had a day off school due to the snow and we all (boarding school) went up to the hills with massive baking trays to sledge down, and another time living in Cyprus when we built a massive snowman (went up to Troodos mountains for the day). Happy days.

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:00

tink, we were the same when DD1 was 3. DD2 had at that point hidious asthma and ended up in hospital after we spent 2hrs in it playing...........and me too!! that was the year I was needing as many nebulisers as DD2 that year....our docs were great at treating us instead of us going into hospital.

still pretty to look at tho

marsy, ya spoil sport.......

twinset.......not sure on sleds. I know that used to be got from woolies and G&T's, but both them gone now, so unsure. camping shops maybe

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bigTillyMint · 03/02/2009 07:03

Yes, still 8 inches or so in our garden!

DC had a fab day yesterday in the snow, and it looks like today will be the same.

Even they are saying " we never get snow like this in London!"

It is what memories are made of

chocolateteapot · 03/02/2009 07:12

I love it. DS and I went sledging yesterday in the woods with a friend and her puppy. He stood there at one point and said that it was the best day ever.

Felt very sorry for DD as her school was the only one open locally but she had a good time before and after school. The day ended with hot chocolate in front of the fire and it really was lovely.

Halfords have a sledge online so might have one and garden centres sometimes have one . We used to use a tin tray when I was young which worked well.

posieflump · 03/02/2009 07:16

totally agree
yesterday was great even thugh school was still open
today, not so much, frozen pavements, walking up a steep hill, bring back yesterday and more snow!

JollyPirate · 03/02/2009 07:18

We had a fabulous day yesterday - I was having an annual leave day anyway and DS's school was shut - we made a snowman - piccie on my profile. Loved it.

twinsetandpearls · 03/02/2009 07:19

My school is shut today and I imagine dd will be so we will try to come up with soemthing