The sun feels warmer. The cold let go and everything is wet. When the snow came, the ground was already soaked from weeks of rain, and the melted snow doesn’t drain away. Our lawn is waterlogged and muddy. There are snowdrops, though, and I picked one.

We’ve been sick for a week, the smallest one and I, stuck with the stubbornest, nastiest cold I have ever encountered. Coinciding with the first real snow this winter. We haven’t been able to enjoy it properly, but watching it from the windows is not that bad. On Monday, M. and I were in the [...]