Dessert

It’s been snowy here this week.  That’s something for our area – we don’t have snow all that often.  Michael took the whole week off, so we’ve been enjoying things like sledding and snow ball fights without them having to involve me.  I’m a snow wimp.  I enjoy doing things in the snow that get me exercise – like walking to the store, which I did this afternoon – so that I stay warm.  I do NOT like having snow thrown at me (nor do I like throwing it – my hands get COLD!), I do not like standing around, waiting for people to sled down the hill or climb back up the hill, or whatever.  You get COLD standing around in the snow, for goodness sake!  But walking to the library (which we did as a family yesterday) or to the store (which I did today myself) are good activities, because you get nice and warm with the exercise. 

The kids love the snow.  There are so many things one can DO in the snow!  Throw it at people!  Receive a handful thrown in one’s own face!  Stomp out a path!  Make ridiculously small and cute bootprints!  Sled down the sidewalk outside the house!  Pull one’s brother around on the sled!  The activities are endless. 

Hannah, of course, has remembered her Little House education, and she wanted to make dessert with snow.  Her original idea was to make maple syrup candy.  It turns out, though, that one needs to use about a pint of syrup, which is as much as I bought at the store today, and our family has other uses for maple syrup in the next few days.  But Michael came to the rescue, as usual, and suggested using the raspberry syrup that we have for flavoring coffee to make real snow-cones.  Hannah enjoyed hers immensely, and wanted to be sure that I documented it on the blog. 

She wants you to know it was good.