{"id":40,"date":"2012-03-14T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-03-14T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:26:00","slug":"snow-aliens-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Snow Aliens In March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Awe, my baby boys first snow angel… or alien…)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It is a good thing we got out in winters first real batch of snow. Only a week later, since the snow storm, and most of it has melted!\u00a0 This is the prairies so we could get more or we could end up with a warm wind that sweeps it all away.\u00a0 Such a strangely warm winter this has been…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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(I have fallen and I can’t get up!)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0Where I am living weather is a normal conversation to have with anyone and everyone.\u00a0 Weather conversations can get very intense.\u00a0 One specific thing I have started to notice was the difference between my friends out west (on the coast) and my friends here on the prairies.\u00a0 Out west they assume they are entitled to snow-less winters and warm weather… out here we assume we will be punished for good weather, he he he…\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know how many times I have heard, this year, ” We are going to get punished in July for this mild winter”! It makes me smile at our differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0Now my kids and I have an advantage in that we are totally happy with a snowy winter so we don’t get down either way.\u00a0 Kids don’t think about the future like adults do.\u00a0 We often have an attitude of ‘if I think the worst I will not be disappointed’.\u00a0 That attitude doesn’t usually turn out the way we think.\u00a0 Generally we just become more grumpy personalities and in some ways always disappointed as everything is a chance to be negative.<\/p>\n

Everything is a chance to not be negative too.\u00a0 Kids are living now and so unconcerned with what may come that they are usually happy with any weather.\u00a0 The attitude of ‘make the most of what ever it is’ seems to flow from children.\u00a0 The more I relax as a mom, and go with their happy little way of looking at life, the better I am at mothering and the better I am at living in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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(If life gives you snow, make snow soup!)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Baby Boy has been really into making snow angels this past week.\u00a0 New discoveries are always so fun.\u00a0 He calls them ‘snow aliens’ though… not sure where he got it from but I corrected him and he gave me a look as he corrected me in return… and I realized he knew exactly what he was saying.\u00a0 I guess he isn’t as weirded out by the idea of aliens as I am, he he he.\u00a0 “Such a pretty snow alien,” he smiles.<\/p>\n

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I want to be a woman of praise… living to praise Christ Jesus in all things and the least I can do is learn to praise him no matter the weather.\u00a0 I am thankful for our dump of snow because of the fun the kids and I had in it.\u00a0 If it hadn’t snowed my Baby Boy wouldn’t have discovered ‘snow alien making’ or my five year old wouldn’t have been able to make me ‘snow soup’.\u00a0 My oldest two got to make their first, ever, snow forts and where so impressed with their abilities.\u00a0 I got to watch it all, capture it all and treasure it in my heart.\u00a0 Thank you Lord for working on my heart, strengthening it in you to be able to praise no matter… no matter the weather and with hope to learn praising no matter the circumstances.<\/p>\n

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(Awe, my baby boys first snow angel… or alien…) It is a good thing we got out in winters first real batch of snow. Only a week later, since the snow storm, and most of it has melted!\u00a0 This is the prairies so we could get more or we could end up with a warm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,11,9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}