Winter has arrived here in Alabama. It didn’t really have the right to behave like spring all through January and suddenly like a fickle child turn into winter.

I tried walking in my winter coat yesterday but it felt like I was carrying a burden. I have a particularly lovely winter coat that makes me look rather like Jadis from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( the book). That would be it makes me look like the Jadis from my imagination not a Nicole Kidman wannabe.

We tried to take pictures but our real camera battery died and our digital will not cooperate once again. The little boys were outside already when I woke up, socks on hands. They are rolling up most of the snow to make a fort and leaving the yard less than lovely. Isn’t that always the plight of the mother: Let them make a mess or don’t?

My favorite snow time was in Nebraska. It would snow and the prairie would look so pretty dotted with farms. There weren’t very many vehicles to mess up the roads and make it all look like what it was: muddy slush. Rockford, Ill wins the lifetime muddy slush award.

We have had a cedar waxwing at the feeder. That was a big deal. As I look out the window from my perch at the computer I can see a cardinal and a junco. Juncos are also called snowbirds. There is really quite a ruckus out at the feeder. The mockingbirds are bullies.

Have you ever read Bird Life in Wington to your children? It is one of my husband’s favorite read alouds.

I especially love the first chapter where we learn the vulture trusts God for his food while the hawk seeks his own. :)

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