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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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Earthymama · 03/02/2009 07:29

When I was little our school was closed for 10 weeks, (Heads of the Valleys in Wales). It was amazing, I was outside everyday gangs of children on sleds and trying to make igloos.

My daughter was tiny when I came back to visit my parents and we were snowed in. She was taken ill and I had to carry through snow up to my knees to get her to the doctors, then take her home and walk about 3 or 4 miles to get her medication. It was still brilliant to be out in that alien landscape, where many of the familiar surroundings just disappeared.

It's left me with an automatic response system though. At the first flake I rush to check that the long life milk is in date, that the veggie box has the makings of Veggie hotpot, and shake out my thermal undies.

I agree with psychomum, these are the days when precious memories are made. I can't wait to see DGD's face when she tells me 'it's 'nowing'.

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:30

WOOHOO

the schools are closed today

we can play guilt-free

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piscesmoon · 03/02/2009 07:36

I still think it is fun and wonder! I love it.

chocolateteapot · 03/02/2009 07:38

still waiting to find out about schools here. I think DD's head would rather chop a leg off than shut judging by what he said yesterday. A lot of people can't get reception for the radio station that run the closures so the phone was going constantly yesterday.

Am prepared today. Am in bed with radio, phone and iPod touch and am not moving until I know I have to!

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:41

chocteapot......look here

hope it is

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:42

keep pressing refresh.....takes a while to click in as it is so busy.

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PurplePillow · 03/02/2009 07:43

We love snow too

Very rarely get snow so have never managed to get rid of my childish love of snow

it has all gone here and schools are opening

But hopefully we get some more

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:43

or give me the initial.......I'll copy n paste as 2cr have been very good.....tis all in alphabetical order

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:46

we gonna make us a snow family!

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LucyEllensmummy · 03/02/2009 07:48

All the snow is gone for us today but me and DD had so much fun yesterday - we made three snowmen and a snow puppy . DD was amazing at making the snowmen - rolling them around until the balls were bigger than her - she is only 3 bless her!! Then i pulled her around on her sledge and hurt my back!

I loved it .

BUT there is a downside - was worried sick about DP getting home from work. Old people become isolated and scared to go out lest they slip. DD loved the snow ON THE GROUND, but sobbed all the way home from play school because the snow was getting in her face.

So yes, loved the snow, but actually quite pleased its gone today glad we were able to make the most of it yesterday. My snowy memories are great too - days off school and sledging on tea trays and bin bags

chocolateteapot · 03/02/2009 07:49

Thank you Psycho, neither are up there yet though most of the others locally are shut.

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:55

they keep updating........you never know, he may change his mind!

my elder girls school is not up, but hers is on a plot with three other school.......all of whom are shut, plus the school bus service has been shut across the county so no getting in anyway!

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herbietea · 03/02/2009 07:55

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 07:56

just updated.......girls school is....whoop whoop

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 03/02/2009 08:05

dd is off too. Not sure about dh as they closed the site yesterday afternoon and said they would leave a recorded message on their system to see if it has reopened. They haven't - so dh will have a 2 mile trek to see if it is or isn't. Hope its not!!!! That way he can play with dd while I go on my 4 mile hike through the snow to my hosp appt!

Having said all that the drama of hiking through 8 inches of snow and ice really does appeal to my melodramatic side!

bubblerock · 03/02/2009 08:15

Well, I'm going to moan...our snow hasn't stuck and my Mum and Dad had their flight cancelled yesterday (they were due to fly to Prague as a present for Dads 60th). Last time they went away my Gran died so they haven't had much luck with breaks away.

HecateQueenOfGhosts · 03/02/2009 08:51

you have a very good point psycho

We made a HUGE snowman yesterday. although we used a big round red scone cutter for a mouth and it looks like a porno deep-throat snowman

And today the kids have already been out, trampling round the TWO FEET of snow in our back garden.

Until their wellies filled up with it and it melted and damn near froze their feet off.

And last night, my and dh spent and interesting evening looking out of bedroom window at the cars trying to get up the hill, but going back down again sideways instead.

And kids were off yesterday and today and probably will be tomorrow as well, so we've saved on petrol and lunch money

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 08:52

aww bubble, that is indeed pants.

ight, all are dressed my end, so off to make snow-families now

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 08:53

hecate.

we have had one near-miss with a car in our street already today.......almost got DH's car!!!

ok, really am off now

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CharleeheartsherChains · 03/02/2009 08:54

I wouldn't mind the snow if the boys nursery was still open, its bloomin ridiculous, all the teachers live in surrounding streets and the heating is more and enough.

i have had to seriously rearrange the week becuase of this which isn't great for my already low mood.

Sorry to moan but thats the way it is here really.

chocolateteapot · 03/02/2009 08:54

DD's school appears to be open but I am trying to ring her in sick, she does have a slight cold. My friend has spoken to one of the govenors who is keeping his DD off and his stance was "do what you want" so I am.

But I can't get through so guess a lot of people are doing the same. If DS was going in I would have sent her but I feel really bad that he will be sledging and she'll miss it again.

HecateQueenOfGhosts · 03/02/2009 08:59

All this talk of sleds has reminded me of sledging as a child. We usually got bin liners and slid down the steep hill on the estate but one year, grandad made us a lovely wooden thing and we went to the parks - fab steep hill! I went down, dad went down, great. Sis went down.

Now, if you can picture it - steep hill. field at bottom. the 2 separated by a thick hedge. To the left is a lane. The idea is to go down the hill, pull the sled to the left and shoot down the lane. With me so far?

Well, I did, dad did. My sister shoots down - doesn't turn! She went zooming straight through the hedge!!

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 09:58

it has been decided in our family that mummy and daddy are the biggest kids in the snow..........

me and DH have had a snowman comp............I have a family of mum, dad and baby.........he has a tall lonely snowman.

and then we had a snowball fight..........

which ended when I chased DH, he ducked, I hit him............and ended up somehow somersalting overhim.

I will now have a massive bruise on my bum and thigh, and my wrists hurt too

pics will be uploaded later.........DD2 playing with the camera!!

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 09:58

oh, and it is now beginning to thaw

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Wizzska · 03/02/2009 10:46

I love snow. Had a day off work yesterday and took DS (14 months) sledging for the first time. Snow just seems to make everyone into a kid again. The park was full of people, kids, teenagers, bloke on snowboards, all ages just able to play in it. How often does that happen in life? You walk down the street and everyone is smiling.

Hecate - that reminds me of when I was about 6, brother 7 years old than me. We were on our wooden sledge, very steep hill with a less steep bit at the top. He promised we'd stop before the steep bit... no we didn't. We hurtled down and managed to crash into a fence. 10 foot to the right of us was a quarry, 10 foot the other way was a sheer 8 foot drop into a garden, and the fence had blown down. I think I told mum on him.

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