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January 08, 2009

A fond farewell to our freaky Frosty

After a month spent on the very edge of lunacy in icy captivity I am happy to report that the thaw has hit. Which in my particular corner of the world means months of torrential downpours and inevitable flooding. But whatever, I’m not complaining. Yet.

As you may have guessed by my near homicidal rantings, I’m no big fan of Winter. But I guess it hasn’t been all bad: We walked through our muffled, snow-covered streets, went sledding, built a front yard snowman.

As far as snowmen go, ours was an oddball, in a badass sort of way. He had an auto parts company trucker hat perched atop two big snowball ears, which made him look a bit like a giant frozen teddy bear with a bad attitude.

He had a quartered zucchini for a nose and two rotting chestnut eyes, and his stick arms kept getting amputated by the dog who seemed to think the whole thing was some elaborate form of fetch.

I was in charge of buttons and was a bit shocked to find that I couldn’t find a single one. I don’t know why this was shocking to me, it’s not like I sit around sewing F dress shirts in my spare time. But still, I felt as though I'd failed some essential mom test: Isn’t it in the job description that we need to have a musty old jar of mismatched buttons somewhere? Not only could I not hunt down a button, but the best substitute I could find was a few old wine corks so our poor badass Frosty had to make do with those.

He was a wreck, but in an endearing sort of way, and Mads seemed to love him. Until he crashed to the ground 10 minutes later, trucker cap cocked defiantly over his one remaining chestnut eye. Mads was a little perturbed, but didn't seem surprised when I told her that Frosty just decided to take a good, long nap. From the looks of him, he needed it.

He’s out there in the front yard still, a pathetic pile of melting mush and three abandoned wine corks. Ah, the magic of childhood.

(ps. Happy Birthday to F - still my favourite person, even though you're getting all old and stuff.)

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ah...the freakish snowman....my kind of guy! happy birthday fernando! care...i hope you took my advice!:)

Posted by: brandee | Jan 9, 2009 7:57:28 AM

I do not know HOW you survive that weather!!

I would go MENTAL!

Posted by: Laura | Jan 9, 2009 8:20:34 AM

goodbye snow, hello mud.

that's all we've got here.

i have in the girls almost eight years with me never made a successful snowman at all.

so even your freakish snowman impresses me!

Posted by: treemama | Jan 10, 2009 7:41:04 PM

Its been very cold here too buy i never got to make a snowman! Im a busy mum of four and write about our adventures in my daily blog! http://arewenearlythereyet.wordpress.com/ I'd love to hear what you thinl - ive been loving your blog! Xxx

Posted by: Are we nearly there yet | Jan 12, 2009 6:19:55 AM