Snow Day

Today was a happy little surprise vacation day. The school where my husband teaches (that is SO COOL to be able to finally say!) was closed due to the snow, and no one at my work ended up going to the office either. Thanks to our surprise three day weekend, I had the bathroom cleaned, five greeting cards made, and dollar theater movie times scoped out... all before 9am! What a day!

Here are some snow scenes from our apartment balcony.  It was way too cold to venture out much further just for a good photo op... It just didn't seem quite worth it at the time.

Honestly, snow is not my favorite thing. It is cold, wet, slushy, slippery, and altogether gross. And winter is not my favorite season. It is also cold, wet, slushy, and gross. Not to mention dreary and dark before 5:00 in the afternoon. I find myself wanting to snuggle into my PJs and get in bed before 7:00 each night. I tend to feel a little less happy and a little more gloomy during the winter.  No doubt, I am a summer gal through and through. 

Ecclesiastes 3

A Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

15 Whatever is has already been,

and what will be has been before;

and God will call the past to account.