Wear Your Jammies Inside Out

All across the North Eastern United States,

schoolchildren suddenly got religion on Tuesday.

Big time.

If you listened carefully, you could hear millions of fervent prayers being offered up at bedtime:

"Please, please, pleeeeease

make it a Snow Day tomorrow!"

 

And if you spotted a child wearing his or her pajamas inside out, that was all part of the ritual.

My girls and their friends swore by it; for some reason,

Mother Nature just can't resist the pleas of little children wearing their jammies

inside out.  It might be that she's amused watching them try and button them . . . .

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I wore my nightgowns inside out when snow was predicted, as I loved Snow Days as much as my kids did.

Homework had been done the night before and the whole day was a gift.

Hot cocoa, books and dolls, playing in the snow, and the damp smell of soggy mittens on radiators.

Since the snow started here before bedtime, local kids went to bed

pretty sure they'd wake to those sweetest words:

"No school today!"

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Not much is going on at That Old House this week.

I've been mostly inside with a bad cold, although I got out Tuesday to run some errands,

tried my best not to breathe on anyone, and now I can stay home and watch the snow fly.

And continue packing away Christmas.

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The parlor fireplace.  Gone are the greens, the white lights and the reindeer.

Pay no attention to the tree in the corner.  Ditto the lamp awaiting rewiring.  Pretend they are not there.  That's what I do.

 The glitz is gone, but the red remains.  Until Valentine's Day.

The wreath that I hung on the mirror last Fall is still there;

it's got plenty of red!

Don't you just love white woodwork?

It's like crisp clean collar and cuffs on a room.

The white fireplace surround, and the bursts of red on the mantle, while outdoors . . . all is white.

 Wonderful Winter.

Sterling Revere bowl -- a family piece.

Red crackle hurricanes, on sale at Michael's before Christmas.

Little round crackle red votive holders, Dollar Tree.  Should have bought more.

Old fashioned heavy glass balls -- gifts.  I added some other colors to the reds, to fill in.

And that's it.

Blog parties!

Today, Wednesday, is Rednesday at It's A Very Cherry World.  Visit Sue here.

And at Faded Charm Cottage, it's White Wednesday.  Click here for more wintry or other whites!

If you are hunkered down in the snowstorm, keep your beverage hot and pile on the afghans! -- Cass

First two images courtesy of The Graphics Fairy.