Let it Snow Giveaway
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I live in Michigan. Usually in Michigan it snows a lot in the winter. Once, last year, after 10 inches fell and blew over night, out my front door it looked like this:
However, this winter, besides one big dumping the beginning of December, it has only lightly snowed a few times, looking more like this:
Snow or no snow, this weekend I am giving away a “Let it Snow” package that looks like this:
It includes:
~ A hat and scarf from Old Navy
~ A box of Dove Milk Chocolate Promises
~ Three packages of Land O’ Lakes white hot chocolate
~ A fun journal to write in on a chilly day
~ A pair of toasty and fluffy socks from Old Navy
To be entered in the giveaway, tell us your favorite memory of snow or, if you are slammed for time, just say “Let it Snow”. Winner announced Monday.
And if you have yet to enter the giveaway fro my friend Darlene ebook The Good Wife’s Guide click here or if you haven’t taken my blog survey to help me as I go forward here in cyberspace, click here.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
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The year it snowed from Jan. – March and there were 2 feet on the ground most of the time. Watching my children play in it, sledding, tunneling and just being joyful. Now they are parent with their own children to enjoy in the snow. Let it snow!
Let it snow!
Remember a time when we used to get enough snow to make “snow tunnels” and forts or igloos. But ,thats been over 30+ yrs. ago so yes Let it snow! so much that my grandchildren can enjoy what I used to do in the snow.
Let it snow!
My favorite memory of snow was quite a few years ago when it kept snowing for days and the kids and I had a whole week off from school. One day in particular stood out as the sun was shinning and it was a beautiful day. My 2 children and I played for hours building snowmen, sliding down the 2 feet snow banks and making snow angels. When we came in, we sipped on some hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows. A true memory to save especially now my kids are 16 and 18!!
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!
I have lots of snow memories! When I was 7 or 8 it snowed around 4 ft. We were snowed in for almost a week (lived in a rural area of northern VA) and there were drifts that were bigger than I was. When I was in the 3rd grade, we were in Oklahoma City in January- it snowed and my brothers and I played out there for hours, until our parents, afraid we were going to get frostbite, made us come in. It was a dry cold and as we were used to more humid cold, we didn’t feel the cold. I think, though, my favorite memory is as an adult. My middle daughter’s first sight of snow. She was 3 yrs old and we had just moved to Texas from California. She had so much fun she didn’t want to come in. She cried when I finally brought her and her red nose and hands back in.
My favorite memory of snow was my first snow. It was last year. I have lived in Florida all my life and never seen real snow till we went to New Hampshire. We took my 2 little boys to ride on the Polar Express. We were visiting in Bretton Woods, playing in the snow above my knees, with my husband and those boys. The experience was priceless. To see the joy of GODs creation in the eyes of a child. As I watched my 5 year old & 2 year waddle through snow almost as deep as they were tall. It is a memory I will forever keep in my heart. So now every year we take our boys to play in the snow. Let it Snow!!
My one of my best memories was going runner sled riding on one of the back roads with a group of friends in high school with a big bonfire at the bottom of the hill. It was all good except when I missed the bridge and went down onto the ice covered creek. Luckily the ice didn’t break but ti sure hit hard! So LET IT SNOW – we’re calling for 5 inches this weekend- yeah!!!!!
Let it Snow! Favorite memory: Being snow bound for days as a kid and snow drifts so big me and my sister could climb them and look in our windows of our house that were on the second floor.
We like to go sledding as a family! I also like to watch my kids play in the big snow pile after the plows go threw!
My favorite memory of snow is one from when my family moved to PA from FL. I was 15 and hadn’t seen snow since I was maybe 6, so the first time it started to snow, I ran outside in it in my stocking feet and was dancing around in it. The neighbors all thought I was nuts and my mom stood at the door and yelled, “Get in here, you nut!” Makes me smile to remember. We live in OH now and after about 45 years of snow, it’s lost a bit of its charm.
I grew up in North Dakota, up by the Canadian border and since marriage have lived mainly here in the south……….central Minnesota!! We also have received hardly any snow. I Love the change of seasons. So I have to say “Let it Snow!!”
Walking to school in the snow…not in shoes with holes in them! but for the mile or so we walked we had fun and enjoyed the company of our neighbors and friends! It was cold in Ohio but I don’t recall complaining of that…it just was! Live in SC now but miss the snow sometimes.
Let it snow! It happens occasionally in Texas, but I don’t think we’re going to see it anytime soon!
My favorite snow was actually last Christmas. It snowed on Christmas Eve and we took off on a family walk. It was quiet, the kids were walking in front of us talking and playing a little, my hubby and I were holding hands. I stopped and told him, it’s like a Norman Rockwell painting! Of course about five minutes later they were arguing and cold and wanting to go home etc. etc. etc. But it is still my favorite snow.
No snow memories because i’ve never seen it here in Florida.
Making real snow cones with my boys! And sledding down
good memories. Now and then!!
Our local hill by the middle school – the same one I did
When I was a kid!!
Living in Texas we don’t usually get snow, but in ’09 we got just enough of a dusting for my kids to make visible snow angels and make a snowman that was about a foot tall. They were thrilled and we had fun!
Snow angels and snow ice cream! Winter doesn’t get any better!
Snow memory, from elementary school, is climbing on the mounds of snow on the playground pretending it was the moon. Also in Michigan, I’m hoping we get the forecasted snow so maybe my headache will finally go away.
As an sd kid snow was a part of life. The best part was sledding down the hills at my grandmother’s property. Why I enjoyed sledding down to the bottom just to walk back up I do not understand today but it was the best!
We were in Upstate NY for Christmas last year visiting my in-laws, and we walked on a frozen lake. It was a bit unnerving, but kind of exciting!
The kids enjoyed it and our son even tried to break the ice–
Let it snow-and it is here in IL!
I love the snow! But like alot of other places this year, so far NO snow yet, and we have had the frezzing weather, but doesn’t seem right without any snow. We don’t want another ice storm
like we had around 6 or 7 years ago. But it is winter and snow would really be nice! Thank you for sharing your pictures, (my husband has been in Michigan for work, with some of the snows.) He said it is something to see.
I am a retired teacher in Ohio. My husband and I have raised 4 children in homes situated in the country. So, when there were snow days for the schools, I also had the day off with the kids. It became a tradition for us to make Peach Bread Pudding on snow days. The children would wake up to the wonderful aroma of breakfast baking in the oven. Two of my kids have continued this tradition with their own kids. Although I am now retired and all our kids are out on their own, Peach Bread Pudding continues to show up at the breakfast table when our children and grandchildren come to visit !!
Making snow angels with my little girls a few years ago is my favorite memory in the snow. Now that they are older (10 and 13), I enjoy watching them play in the snow from our picture window. It’s much warmer this way!
One of my fondest memories is spending hours and hours sled riding down a wonderful on our side yard. We also would build huge snow forts.
Let it snow!!
My favorite memory of snow would have to be when I was around 8. We use to go to my grandma’s house for Christmas and my cousin and her husband would come from Alaska. My cousin would take all of us younger cousins and go sledding behind my grandmas’s house. Then he we have us race and give us money for all the differnt awards he would give out. The money was only like a dollar or two, but we thought it was a lot. Haha!
Christmas Day of 2010 we had about 2 inches of snow that was quite a treat as it only happens once in a great while in North Georgia. We got pictures of us on front porch with house decorated for Christmas and it snowing.
I just today sold my sunny Arizona home to move back to beautiful snowy Michigan. The pull of family just got to be too strong. So, I believe my best snowy days memories are yet to come .
Let it SNOW!!!
Oooh, we had a great 20-inch snow (a big snow for ’round here) several years ago, and we LOVED it. My black lab loved it so much (she was a cold weather girl), she ran around the pasture and would go into a drift and all you’d see was her tail wagging above the snow line.
A beautiful snow with inches of ice underneath more inches of snow — perfect for exploring and great for sledding!
Thanks for this kind opportunity!
I live in South Carolina, so we don’t get much snow. But when we do it’s beautiful & I get time off from work because most of us here don’t know how to drive in the snow!
While I was growing up, we moved quite a bit. One year when I was about 11 and my sister was 7 we lived in Fairfax, VA right outside of Washington DC. That particular winter we received so much snow that no door would open on the house. I can remember my mother opening the window of the second floor (not as high as you might think the way the house sat) and scooping up snow in a bowl. She brought it inside and made the best snow ‘cream…snow ice cream. My sister and I sat in front of the fireplace eating our snow ice cream and giggling at my father who thought he was going to shovel the driveway so as to go to work. Not…he gave up and joined us at the fireplace eating snow ice cream. I loved that day…makes me remember such happy memories of my mom. May you all be blessed and LET IT SNOW!!!!! Georgia could use another week break…time to just sit and reflect on God’s beauty! Blessings and Smiles to all….Robin
My favorite memories are just playing in the snow with my son. I live in a small town where there are many walkers and I like to be the first one out after a night time snow to make the first tracks around town!!
I am a teacher so my favorite memories are snow days…sleep in a little, play in the snow, have some hot chocolate and relax.
When my youngest was little it started snowing late in the day. We went out in the dark, with the moon shining and built a snowman.
I loved snow as a child and can remember trying to build igloos and sled riding. But I never really knew snow until I married my first husband who was from Minnesota. We went up there every year the week after Christmas and I LOVED sitting there looking out the window at the snow peacefully falling and everything looking fresh and shiny outside. I also enjoyed the sledding up there!!
I remember when we moved to AR from the deserts of Calif. We had 12 inches of snow, something our daughters had never seen. It was so fun to watch them playin it.
I remember snow days as a kid when it seemed that the drifts along our windbreak were 10 feet tall! There were 8 of us kids growing up, and we would spend hours digging tunnels and forts into the deep drifts and having snowball fights. The best part was going inside after an hour or so and being all tingly from the cold and sipping cocoa in the kitchen
LET IT SNOW!!!!
Digging tunnels around our pickup truck after the blizzard of ’78! We could walk on top of it!
On Jan 27, 1996 the East Coast was hit with a huge blizzard. We lived in Maryland where we had over 3 feet of snow. That night my husband proposed to me – just the two of us. It was the most memorable time. The only problem was that it was three days before the roads were cleared so I could show off the ring!!!
My favorite memory as a child when it snowed was shoveling with my dad and brothers, and then playing in it with my friends for hours, no matter how cold or wet we were! After hours of playing we would come in and my mom would have hot soup and cocoa for all of us. Then we would watch it come down and snuggle under warm blankets and watch movies. Now I am making those same childhood memories of “Snow Days” with my 10 y/o daughter and husband! It is actually supposed to snow here tonight and tomorrow in PA so we will be doing the memories tomorrow!!
I live in Alaska & my favorite memory as a kid is when I would be outside all day building snow forts with all my friends. I can remember we would go out at 10am and not come home until we were called to come in. & then after coming inside you start to take off all the layers upon layers of gear you have and mom has home made soup that’s ready to eat that’s been cooking all day long. *sigh* those were good memories that I have playing outside as a kid. I miss them & I hope that when I’m blessed with children I can give them the same warm winter memories. Let it snow! Have a blessed weekend!!
Winter 1976 (or was it 1974-75? lol) .. Sw lower Mich.
MAJOR BLIZZARD.. RED ALERT (yea thats what they were callec back then)
We got DUMPED on and I mean dumped on… 6-8 ft drifts.. everything shut down!
I remember taking our sleds down to the nearest grocery store to fetch some needed food… we carried said food back on the sleds. Everything was a total mess.. these lil “sniffles” called snowstorms today are nothing compared to the 70s lol.
Let It SNOW!! (north of me lol..I moved south & you can keep ALL OF IT)
From Wisconsin, let it snow…and melt quickly!
I grew up in NC and we did not get very much snow…so when we did it was a big deal. We loved making snow cream…who knows how good it was for you, but it tasted great!
Let it snow! Love the snow and playing with the kids outside!
Making snow angels, walking to school in the snow when I was a kid in Montana in the ’60′s!
I ,too, live in Michigan and am not a fan of the white stuff but……Let it snow!
I remember one crazy big snow as a kid – snow drifts higher than the car on either side of the road to Grandma’s for Christmas – and then sliding down the big drift from the roof! (kids got to do much more dangerous stuff in the 70s)
My favorite memory of snow was my daughter’s first snow. She went out and played in it with her dog. Then she fell face forward in the snow and came up looking like a snowbeast child. We laughed. She cried. I’ll never forget it though. I have pictres too!
When I was young I loved making snow forts and listening to the sound of the snow “chrunch” when I walked.
Nice giveaway & beautiful pictures of the snow! Let it snow, even in SC where it rarely snows! God bless!!!!!
It snowed! We have enough for now
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Oh, I bet I messed up I just hit reply to enter. Anyway hope I have a chance. I said Let it snow in North Carolina I so want to win this. You have such great give aways and such great suggestions for presents. I’ve used several of your suggestions for Christmas. Thanks again for all your suggestions and for all that you put on your site. I’m making the cake today.
Let it snow!!!!
I am home from work and all cozy at home, so bring the snow on!!!!
first time I built a snowman with my oldest who is now 26 years old
thanks
I love to watch snow through the windows of my warm home, and I love when school and work are cancelled for this type of inclement weather…until about the third day when the kids are going stir crazy….which makes me go even crazier….with all that said, I’m thinking a handful of snow days this winter will be nice…spaced out nicely, a couple here a couple there, but please, nothing like when we were stationed in Kansas….that was my fondest memory, my new best friend and me sipping coffee and eating chocolate while our boys, also new best friends, were playing in the 18″ plus of freshly fallen snow and in the single digit temperatures, I might add! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
When I was a kid We lived 8 miles out in the country and used to get snowed in all the time. then the power would go out. So my parents would block off access to most of the house except on bed room the kitchen and on restroom. They would turn the gas stove on for heat and we would all sit at the kitchen table and play board and card games by candle and camp lantern. Fun family times I miss.
Here is my second on last year when Illinois had all that snow we had a six foot drift right out side our front door that my daughter and Husband after working a 24hr shift at work had to climb over to get into the house. was going to post a pic but it won’t let me.
Let it snow!
My favorite memory of snow has been the snowfalls my family has seen this winter. My little girl is 2 and a half, and this is the first year that she has gotten really excited about to he snow. She will run from window to window looking outside and exclaiming snow, and begging to go outside. It is so sweet!
Here in NC, some winters we do gets lots of snow. This year, sadly none yet. I have several good memories. Some include sledding w/ my children and playing board games and making homemade soups for warming up after cold, wet playtimes outside.
Happy winter….let it snow!
I can remember waking up one morning when I was little to mountains of snow. My parents were still in bed and informed me that there would be no school that day. I was so amazed that they would know before we even listened to the radio that there was no school. I think we ended up with 20+ inches and were snowed in for days!
Let it SNOW!!
Let it snow! I remember, when just a young girl, going sledding any chance I got, on the street beside our house; building snow ‘houses’ out of mounds of snow, building forts that we would toss snowballs from behind; making snow angels….and staying up late to see if a snowy forecast would produce a school cancellation!!
One of my favorite memories of snow is when we sent our then 18 month old son down the sledding hill on one of those snow discs. He giggled and shouted gleefully the whole way down and begged for more.
Sooo cute!
Let it snow!
My son has autism and he doesn’t like the feel of many things. For many years, we could not get him to go out and play in the snow. Finally, during one of the blizzards of 2009, he decided he would try it! We were so excited! So, my favorite memory of snow is when he made his first snowman!
My favorite snow memory was when we got nearly 25″ of snow in Raleigh, NC back in 2000. It was fun to play like kids and have a week of unexpected vacay with my hubby. Of course, that was before kids. I’m not sure I would enjoy it nearly as much these days.
I’m not a winter person, but living in Missouri, it happens every year! My favorite winter memories are the times I bundled up and took our faithful old Lab walking at the park. She loved her walks, even in the cold and snow. Sadly, she left us last spring and the walks aren’t the same.
Let it snow! Doesn’t happen very often here
Love it when it does!
Let it snow!
One of my favorite snow memories is the year my husband prepared a scavenger hunt for our son’s birthday (in March) and all the kids at the birthday party were running around in the 1 1/2 feet of snow, with snow coming down. They had SO much fun!!
My mother in law was in her final days of cancer, and we were staying with her so my sister in law and her husband could have a weekend away to recharge their batteries. That weekend we got a blizzard — 32″. Nothing in our town was moving. The morning we woke up to the snow, and noises we couldn’t make out. It was all the neighbors clearing the street in case we needed an ambulance before the plows would make it to us. Several days later when we could return to our home we figured that we would have to dig a path to our front door.. When we pulled onto our street, tears filled our eyes… OUR neighbors had dug out our walk and a spot in the driveway for our car. What a blessing! Mom made it only a few more weeks, but she loved that snow and the support from both sets of neighbors!
2010 most snow I’ve ever remeber seeing in my lifetime!
Let it snow!!
Let it snow!!!
My favorite memory is when I lived in Evanston, IL. It was about 1977 and it snowed a ton that winter. We lived at the end of a cul-de-sac and when the snowplow came down the street, it would pile it up by our house. My sister and I loved to climb up the snow piles. We have one of us sitting on top of one that winter. As I remember, it was almost as high as our garage roof. (Probably not but that’s part of the fabulous memory I have!)
I need to have me a party!!!
I need to have me a party!!!