To begin with, its been wicked, wicked cold out. For weeks. Like, really cold. So cold that your nose can’t run, but you can experience snotsickles.
I woke up yesterday and looked out my kitchen window.
Holy Hell Frozen Over! -20 degrees!!?
I could hardly believe it. I didn’t want to believe it!
But I live in the age of Facebook, so I grabbed my phone and took a picture. I wanted to show everybody how stoic I am, how strong and brave! I snapped the photo, I posted it, I went to work.
And I decided to share my awesome photo with the kids. So I put this up on my Smartboard:
And the kids walked in.
And started laughing and pointing.
“Oh, my God!”, they crowed, “Where did you get this picture of a witch?”
Yup.
They completely ignored the low temp, which was all I saw.
They were totally caught by my scary reflection, which I never noticed.
Goes to show you: kids always see the world in new and exciting ways. They find a way to laugh, and to make me laugh.
Even when its twenty below, and the scary old witch is me.
Empty Nest, Full Life 
“Snotsickles.” Perfect! Just perfect.
Every time I start to complain about how cold it is here in No VA, I remember how much worse it could be. It was 0 yesterday when I walked Duncan — 5 today (heat wave!). I am pretty sure that there isn’t a person in the US who won’t be happy to see spring!
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If there is such a person, I’ll handle ’em! After all, I am a scary witch!
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Too funny. No such problems here in Florida.
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Oh, the snotsickles you’re missing……
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Did you see the lamb? Or the witch?
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Maybe it’s an old person thing, but I didn’t see the witch until you mentioned it. Then I had to enlarge the picture. And I still just saw a reflection. Yup, definitely an old person thing. And a COLD person thing.
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I think kids are programmed to scan the world for monsters and witches; and once I cracked up, everyone had to get on the bandwagon! It was truly hilarious!
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