ML - Day 3

Maternity leave, day 3 - Today was the first big snow of the year.  They closed schools today, and by the end of the day - they closed schools for tomorrow as well.  Work has already finished for me, but for my colleagues, they were all celebrating with about a hundred WhatsApp texts.  The timing of the snow falls just before winter break - school was going to end with report cards on Friday and students and teachers would enter into their two week winter holiday - but everyone got it a bit early.  And everyone needed it.


We blew up the snow tube and went outside midday to do some sledding and snowball making.  The snow was sticky and wet,  as the temperature hovered just around freezing.  Tomris laughed and laughed going down the hills.  Teoman protected me from snow balls and "bad guys".  Tomris tired out pretty quickly in the snow, and needed to be carried up the hills.  Our nanny and their  amca were there to help with the haul.  Tolga came home early too, so while I was waiting for Teoman to go down "one last time" and finish making another snow angel (his energy seemed endless), Tolga joined us and we all went inside together for some lunch and hot cocoa.  We sent out nanny home early and gave her the day off tomorrow.

The blanket of snow is like these days, a blanket of peace.