THE SNOWMAN

 It was already cold outside but with the temperature dipping low…

The weatherman predicted, overnight, we’d be getting snow.

To our delight when we awoke that morning…the weatherman was right…

because the trees…the ground…the land…everything was painted white.

It was a wet snow that clung to everything which helped Deborah (who hasn’t seem much snow) understand…the meaning of this two word phrase…Winter Wonderland.

Watching her at the window…she was positively glowing 

because not only was everything she could see white…but outside…it was still snowing!

So we did what anyone would do when faced with such beauty at the beginning of the day…

We bundled up, put on our gloves and went outside to play.

At first we stopped to listen…listen that is all…as Deborah never realized how silently snowflakes fall.

She bent and picked up some snow, then smiled and said to me, “not only is it beautiful but I never knew how soft the snow could be”.

Next we started walking because no time in the snow would be complete…without the feel and that wonderful sound of snow crunching neath our feet.

Then the two out us built a snowman…found him a comfortable place….and as we turned to walk away noticed a smile on his face.

From the windows of our hotel…children just getting out of the sack…smiled and waved to us and we happily waved back.

We walked for hours…throwing snowballs…catching snowflakes…thoroughly enjoying the view…because in a winter wonderland…that’s what people do.

The snow finally stopped falling and the temperature rose to 43…and our morning winter wonderland melted into a memory.

We revisited our snowman…hoping he had made it through…but when we got there, to our dismay…he had melted too.

But to our delight what should the two of us happen by chance to find…there in the melted snow…the smile he left behind.

Yes, leave it to a melting snowman…to remind us to enjoy every fleeting moment of happiness we can find…to take away happy memories while leaving only smiles behind.