a snowy glimpse

It snowed on the way home from church today. 

After we piled out of the car, Asher stood in the grass with his arms out, gazing at the snowflakes.

It touched me to watch him entranced by the snow.

Shortly after, I had to make a trip to the store, before the somersault of the week begins.

After close to a two hour shopping fiasco, with those who thought we might be snowed in for a month, and the on-the-ball Thanksgiving shoppers, I left the store to find that the snow had turned to rain.  I felt my heart grow heavy as I pushed my cart to the car, realizing I had just spent the brief, snowy hours amidst chaos, instead of watching it fall, as my children had been doing when I left.

But, I smiled when I pulled into the driveway and found my
sweet childrenin their mismatched,
non-snow-shoe, one glove and eating carrots,
daddy-lovin glory.

It made my afternoon.