’twas a visit from queen elsa, i dooo believe!

we woke up on saturday morning to find a blanket of snowy white on the ground! which was funny since the night before, i’d fallen asleep before the snow started around midnight, excited that our saturday was to be 50 degrees and sunny. [which it was, despite the wintery start! yay!] so, when i peeked out the window that morning, i was totally surprised!

anyway, as much as the snowy morning set the perfect backdrop for staying all cooozy indoors, snuggled up with a mug of hot coffee… as the mom of a little princess who likes to open my sleeping eyeballs and say, “do you wanna build a snoooowmaaaan?” a la anna de frozen… well, of course, i knew we had to get our tiny lady out and into the powdery white before it melted away! aaaand so we did!

i was pretty excited to see maddalena in the snow, since i knew she didn’t remember the little snows we’ve had in the past… and she was thrilled as she took it all in, making her own little footprints and watching minnie race around playing! and then, bless her, she said she wanted to build a “willy, willy big snowman!!” but was sweetly delighted with our attempts at a little tiny snowman. and when tiny snowman was finished [thanks to daddy’s snowball skills! mine were totally crumbling!], complete with… no eyes or mouth [he was a fragile snowman!]… we said “what’s the snowman’s name, madd?!” thinking there was only one obvious answer to that question [i mean, olaf, right?], she replied, “…strawberry shortcake!!” oh! strawberry shortcake! haha. of course! of course, of course. 😉

…aaand then we all went inside to snuggle with our coffee, fix up some breakfast, and wait for the sun  to warm everything way, way up! and oh, it did and it was ever so lovely.