Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:32 AM
We’ve gotten a fair amount of snow over the past few days.
Daniel has been positively enchanted.
One of the most thrilling things about having kids, I have discovered, is the opportunity it affords us to see the “same ole” things in new light.
I saw only snow, but Daniel saw the best thing that ever happened to him.
After a painstaking twenty minutes getting his gear on, he flung himself into the white stuff and did not look back.
“Where has this stuff been all my life?” his grin seemed to say to me as he packed snowballs, rolled on his back, and tasted a wall of his brother’s snow fort ("No, no! Yucky! Don’t do that!").
I figured he would get cold after a few minutes and head back indoors. I long ago resigned myself to the fact that it often takes more minutes to get a child ready to play in the snow than he actually spends outdoors playing.
But Daniel did not come back inside for over an hour. He played and rolled alongside his brothers and sisters as I watched through the window, smiling.
I like this boy’s approach to life, I thought. Take whatever God sends and make the most of it. Snow falls from the sky? Jump on in!
We should all embrace life with such joy and abandon.
He did not even notice that he is a poster boy for the importance of mothers buying unisex snow gear.
Pink snow pants? Purple boots?
I weighed the options: A) Buy new stuff when I have a perfectly good snow pants and a nice quality pair of LL Bean boots in his size sitting at home ... or B) Use what I have and begin teaching the boy that manhood is more than the color of your boots.
I went with option B. So far, I think he has forgiven me.
But blogging it? That might later prove unforgivable. Only time will tell.
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Danielle,
Fashion and style go out the window wen it comes to winter wear. With all the hats, gloves, mittens, boots, snow pants etc...No child is wearing anything coordinating. By the middle of winter, when things are lost and misplaced, they are seen wearing two different gloves or mittens on their hands.
Too funny! When I saw the first photo, I was marveling at the fact that his hat and gloves matched his coat! What a laugh I got when I read further down and saw the whole picture! Just tell him that it’s the blessing of being the 8th child! Wasn’t the gospel today all about using what you have? Hahahaha!
He is so cute! We miss the snow down here in the south. My husband and I both grew up in upsate New York. Our six kids feel very snow deprived during the winter months. Every Christmas they pray for snow!
In preparation for our upcoming move to Maine I have been stocking up on snowsuits and boots for all the kids at the thrift stores here in not-so-cold MD. (can’t beat $3 for LL Bean gear) My stipulation was that everything had to be unisex in terms of colors, ‘cause while a 2 year old doesn’t much care about pink pants, a 6 year old sure does!
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