What are the best memories you have of a snow-filled, childhood winter?

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

When I was 5 years old it came a fast blizzard on December 24 and my sister was in 1st grade at school. It came so quick that the buses couldn’t drive in it. We had to call a family friend to get her, he walked to the school and walked her to their home. Then he walked to the dime store and bought her gifts. It dumped about 30 inches of snow. My favorite thing was that my sister didn’t get home for about a week (snow plow got stuck on the road)...it was peaceful for a week cause she bullied my sister and I. And we got to make snow ice cream and play out in the snow each day.

MeAgain · 51-55, M

I love how some memories stick with us over the years and how our perspectives shape our emotions at that time. Have you ever asked your sister about that week? I wonder how she recalls it. @cherokeepatti

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@MeAgain Yes she talked about it. She got to stay with the family and had a few gifts to open. We also got to go on a sleigh ride around the farm later on. My uncle got pneumonia from wading the snow to feed the animals and milk the cows every day.

MeAgain · 51-55, M

Sleigh rides on a farm seems like a charming, pleasant memory. Although she had gifts, I think being on a farm would trump it. @cherokeepatti

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@MeAgain It was nice to do even if only once, like something you’d see in a movie about the turn of the century. We had a large pasture and the sleigh was left from the pre-tractor days. The farmers up there in Northern Missouri started buying snowsleds for the winter so they wouldn’t have to wade the snow like my uncle did. I heard some of the big farms up north had tunnels from the house to the milk barns.