The weather forecasters were predicting snow here in my part of the south but I wasn’t holding my breath as snow has been predicted many times and never come. We haven’t had snow in about two years. But low and behold, it snowed!

Needless to say, Noah was very excited when he woke up and saw all the “white stuff.” School was cancelled of course and the whole town pretty much came to a stand still because people in the south just don’t know how to cope with snow! There wasn’t really enough to do much with and by the time the sun came out today it was getting a little mushy, but still, I bundled Noah up, drug out the sled that we have never used since it was bought a few years back, and headed outside. We turned the wheelchair ramp into a sled ramp. It was iced over pretty good and made sledding easy and fun with just one little push.

As I was standing at the bottom of the wheelchair ramp taking pictures of Noah sledding, I began to think that something or someone rather, was missing. My thoughts drifted off to Charlie. Playing in the snow and sledding down the wheelchair ramp is something brothers should do! I know Noah enjoyed himself and thought it was great fun, but I couldn’t help but think that this is something Noah and Charlie would have had more fun with if they were together. As I was looking at the pictures in the display screen, I could mentally see where Charlie would have fit in the sled had he been there.

When I was pregnant I had an idea that the big holidays and moments would be hard, but I never really realized how the everyday moments and my thoughts would be effected as well. Just another thing that the adoption agencies forget to tell ya! I’m prepared for the big moments, milestones, and holidays, but it’s the little moments that keep sneaking up on me!

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Photo Credit: Coley S.

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