Snow

The skies are gray.
The rooftops are gray.
The whole city is gray.

Then... ...one snowflake.

"It's snowing!" said mommy.

"It's only a snowflake," said boy with light saber.

Then two snowflakes.

"It's snowing," said kids riding home on bikes.

"It'll melt," said boy without shoes.

Then three snowflakes.

A few snowflakes float down and melt.

But as soon as one snowflake melts another takes its place.

"No snow," said teacher.

"No snow," said everyone in Texas.

But snowflakes don't listen to teachers, snowflakes don't listen people in Texas.

All snowflakes know is snow, snow and snow.

Snowflakes keep coming and coming, circling an swirling, spinning and twirling, dancing, playing, there, and there, floating, floating through the air, falling, falling everywhere.











.. we never got to the point where the whole city was white.

The boy without shoes was right.

"Goodbye snow."

Story adapted from "Snow" by Uri Shulevitz

I was really surprised to see snow falling this afternoon. The twins were unimpressed. They don't remember snow and fluffy rain didn't really pull their interest. Samantha and Jacob arrived home and were cold but excited. We had hot chocolate to warm them up and watched the snow from the window. Samantha wanted to show Alex but he was still sleeping. Slowly the snow disappeared and was gone by the time he woke up. We were all disappointed, but this is Texas. Yesterday Jacob went to school in shorts with no jacket at least I told him to wear warmer clothes today.