February 11, 2006 8:24 pm
The Nor’easter
The first Nor’easter of the season is heading toward New England. We’ve been expecting it for days. Patience is not one of the skills the boys have mastered.
The boys are both very excited to go out tomorrow and hope to find a foot of snow. I’m looking forward to being out with them. Playing in the snow is such a fantastic sensory activity. You can run in it, slide in it, and lie down it and make snow angels. You can squeeze it into balls and throw it. You can watch the dog jumping through it, pushing it away with his nose to get to a smell that only he notices. You can help dad with the snow blower, moving the piles of snow where ever you want. I wish we could order up a foot of snow for sensory play whenever we want.
The flip side of a Nor’easter is the wind. Forty mile per hour howling wind is not such a wonderful sensory experience for any child, and even less so for the hypersensitive. You hear the snow blowing against the window. You hear the trees outside creaking as they bend, and sometimes, break. The wind leads to lots of anxiety about losing power. The flashlights, that we will probably not need at all, are already spread out around the house. We’ve even had to “practice” turning out the lights to see how dark it will be if the lights go out. We’ll see if the kids make it through the night in their own beds!
Update on Sunday morning: Current predictions are averaging over 2 feet of snow in less than 24 hours and continued high winds. It appears that the most of the sensory activity for today will be visual, as we gaze at the drifting snow through the windows. Maybe tomorrow…
I still wish I knew what this “snow” thing is so many of you people up north keep talking about.
February 12th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Pace our man in Louisiana, snow’s the stuff that brings you a free day off!
February 13th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
No day off in Connecticut! 24 inches of snow on Sunday and not even a delayed school opening on Monday. What’s the world coming to?
February 13th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Hah! We’re bang in the middle of the snowbelt – otherwise known as Wisconsin – and we’ve had zero, that’s ZERO – inches of snow for weeks now.
I’m loving this website. Wondering if there is a link to contact the owner/blogger directly. I have some technical questions.
March 2nd, 2006 at 8:50 am