les vacances de Noël a commencé!

It's true - Christmas vacation started this morning.

It's only the first day - but here's how it started at our house:

• the temperature dropped overnight and the rain turned to snow early this morning - so our first snow of the year was the morning of the first day of holidays.
• there were two dear eating at the snow-covered grass in the yard - the first deer we've seen in a long time
• we had a huge breakfast together as a  family
• as soon as we were done - the kids were outside in the snow - and stayed out until they were too wet and tired to play anymore
• little Alma was just lying around 'talking' more than she ever has

The forecast is for more cool temperatures and more precipitation over the next few days  - so hopefully not too much of this will melt - and they'll be some more.  Which is good because much of our snow has been sledded into the ground or rolled up into a ball.