Snow day

It is really winter. On Wednesday we had a blizzard, and the children had a snow day from school. Seems like all the snow from all the fields blew in and stopped in the area between our house and garage. I think that drifts were 4 feet tall. The children's sledded in the ditch in front of our house during the morning, but when they wanted to go out in the afternoon, I heard snowmobiles tearing across the tracks that my kids carefully made fluffy snow that morning with their sleds. Our ditch is a thorough fare for snowmobiles complete with miniature traffic signs. There is a little bitty yield sign on each side of our driveway.

Because I thought it would be safer, I told the children to go to the west side of the shelter belt, where there is a little hill in the cultivated field, sloping away from our house. At first Emily came back and reported that she was not sure this was going to work well because she and David were getting stuck in drifts that came above their waists. After scooping snow out of her boots though, she joined David outside and they stayed out past dark, out of my sight with the below-zero wind-chill and four-foot drifts. I do not want to talk with them about what they did because I feel like it would ruin something magic. They prevailed through wildness by themselves.