LOUISIANA SNOW DAYS

AHHHH!

Louisiana snow days, how is that thought nostalgia!

I think last time it snowed here in Plaquemine was 2018

when the Cottage was grey and red

and the grandgirls had so much fun!

Nostalgia being my 2025 word of the year,

I can probably count on two hands how many 

times we had snow in Golden Meadow.

Weather was not forecasted so far in advance back then

so it was something that surprised us every time.

I can remember the phone calls on our landline

from family and friends up North, Thibodaux,

calling to say it had started snowing there and

to start watching for it.

"Its coming y'all way"

Sometimes it made it all the way to Golden Meadow,

sometimes it did not. 

We would all run upstairs to the window and just wait,

as if being higher off the ground,

we could see the snow sooner.

Because we had no snow gear,

it was socks on the hands and big coats that were probably not ours.

I don't remember as a child ever having enough snow

to make a snow man but that didn't stop us from trying.

Golden Meadow snow men were built different,

they only had one big ball of snow 

and never a "corn cob pipe or a button nose"

much less two eyes made out of coal.

Then there was that one Christmas, back in 1989, 

when Jesi was 2 months old and Roddie was 4.

It was the first White Christmas I can remember.

While it may not snow very often here, when it did

it put everyone  in the best of moods.

So the grandgirls were sent home with all their school work

as school will be cancelled and they get

to have something we rarely get here...

Snow days!

I want that for them....

and for me.....