Winter has been a long time in coming but it has hit Bloemfontein with a BANG! Aside from the cold, it has been raining on and off since yesterday and all the kids want is snow! Well, today we came pretty close! I think it was perhaps more sleet and ice rain than snow but it had the same reaction on the kids. They begged to go out even though its about 4 degrees outside and the sleet/ice rain was still coming down. It would be easy for me to lock the door and refuse to let them go out but I remember being 7 and walking barefoot in the snow on the way back from the Cape one July holiday and what kind of mother would I be if I was more worried about them getting wet and cold than I was about them experiencing nature at its best? Well, although instinct was telling me to protect my young, the little girl part was saying, "lets go kids"! And so we ended up outside, freezing cold but happy!
A tale of two sisters... who became three.