It's a Christmas Miracle!!

Only it's April. and I'm so effin' sick of it being SO COLD still, and me being so cold all the time, I don't know what to do.

It snowed last night.  Early morning, actually, but who's counting at 2:47am?!  Certainly not I.  I woke up, decided I'd visit the facilities, and get back in bed since it was MUCH EARLIER than I had expected.  So I walk into the hall, and notice that the light coming in the upstairs window right above the stairs is looking rather funky.  So I walk over and look out, and everything was WHITE.  My first thought was smoke, but I didn't have a sense that anything was on fire, really, I guess it's just my Georgia brain wasn't comprehending snow during April.  We've already had the Master's for goodness sake, and really there are only ever about two days of REAL SNOW POSSIBILITIES in Georgia during the whole year, so yeah, snow was the furthest thing from my mind.

But it was plastered all over EVERYTHING outside, and still coming down!

So when I got back into the bedroom, I decided to peek out of the curtains, and see what it looked like from the front of the house.

WHOA!  It was amazing.  SO amazing, that I gasped, THREW OPEN THE CURTAINS AND SHOUTED, "OH MY GOD, E.M., LOOK AT THIS!"  He probably thought something was wrong, and he kind of half asleep threw himself upright so he could see.

Then immediately collapsed back to sleep.  Men.

So I marveled at it a little bit more, forgetting for one moment how cold it is, and has been, but instead looking at the smoothness of it all, the unfortunate yellow light being shone on it from the ugly yellow street lights outside, the fact that NO ONE had been down the street for hours, obviously, because the roads were just as thick, soft, and fully covered as the roofs and the yards.  And as I laid back down to go back to sleep, I wished I'd had my camera right there, to try and take a picture of what I'd seen.  It wouldn't have been a good shot, I'm sure, and it certainly wouldn't have conveyed what I saw when I opened the curtains, but if I COULD have had one of that very moment, looking the exact way it did, that would have been nice.

I got up around 8am, made my breakfast, and found my camera.  I took some pictures, but by then the snow had completely stopped, and had to have been over for hours at that point, because everything was already starting to melt and look tired.  Numerous cars had already been up and down the roads, and that snow was basically gone.

But I remembered what it looked like when it was still pristine and new, and I can still feel what it felt like to see it, when I look at the pictures I did take.  So as I settled back down, and had already started to majorily konk back out, I didn't really mind the cold outside.

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