The kids are soooooo disappointed.......

We didn't get the predicted snow here in the South of England ~ my two little stars sat and watched the weather report last night with great anticipation ~ while the weather man predicted snow here and here and there ~ there was great excitement and Lauren had already planned her WINTER look for school (bless her ~ that's my girl!!), the High School Musical hat, scarf and gloves set was all laid out ~ together with winter boots and her most cosy coat ~ give her praise where praise is due ~ my girl sure is a forward planner (tee hee ~ shame her mother isn't!!!!!!!).

Daniel was making plans for a snow ball fight at school and discussing whether we would get snowed in ~ meaning of course the prospect of NO SCHOOL ~ which seemed to bring a rather large smile to his face!!!

I was ready for the snow too ~ I had my camera all ready for pictures ~ so that I could blog about it all (well ~ that is as ready as I could get!!!!).

When we drove back from my weigh in last night (where I lost NOTHING ~ stayed the same again ~ ah well ~ onwards I go!!), it was so cold and the car temperature was showing as -2.5 degrees ~ and it certainly felt like snow could be on its way ~ the roads were awful ~ I could feel the car slipping ~ but thankfully as we came closer to home I saw the good old orange flashing lights of the gritters ~ heading out to grit the roads ~ so that made the children even more sure that snow was coming (in their minds ~ gritters = SNOW!!!!).

We all went to bed last night ~ wrapped in about 300 layers of bed clothes ~ well ok ~ maybe I have exagerated a small amount there (tee hee!!). The place is quite warm here ~ but I always put the heating off over night ~ and was anticipating a cold night!!

Lauren woke this morning ~ with great excitement (you would think it was Christmas morning!!) ~ and ran in the living room and opened the curtains to................NO SNOW ~ no lovely festive white scenery ~ no snowmen and snowball fights ~ nope ~ just good old freezing cold British RAIN!!! She had the most disappointed look on her face ~ poor love!!
BUT ~ with the promise of pancakes for breakfast (yes ~ I can make a rather good pancake if I try really hard ~ tee hee), she soon perked up again!!

So, after complaining about having to defrost the car yesterday morning ~ I am now going to make a confession ~ I would have rather been defrosting the car again this morning ~ than standing around in the freezing cold rain ~ I dislike rain EVEN more (yes ~ I do like to moan about EVERYTHING!!!!!) ~ and it makes my hair go frizzy ~ which is why I am having a very bad hair day today!!

I am praying that the promised snow comes tonight maybe ~ as my hair can't cope with any more frizz and Lauren is desperate to wear her snow boots at least just once this year!! XXX