Snow here is different from the snow in Utah or Oregon. In Utah, the snow stays around for months on end and life continues like it’s nothing. In Oregon, the snow turns to ice, and everyone slips down the driveways and sidewalks and crashes their cars. In North Carolina, you get a couple inches of powder and your power goes out, the phone lines die, and everything shuts down.
The boys only spent about an hour out there. Last year, our one snow day turned into in and out
of the house five times, with clothes and water everywhere. This year the boys were less interested. I think Nick spent the most time outside the day after the big snow. He wanted to use up the last of it to build a snowman. As I was pulling out of the driveway the next day, I saw something sticking out of the snowman’s head-it was my 
butter knife! On closer inspection, I saw a trail of blood drawn down the side and words of pain written all over it in Sharpie. Of course Nick had to torture the snowman. Its head now resides in my freezer.