{"id":50369,"date":"2025-01-10T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50369"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:53:30","slug":"dad-brog-145-almost-three-years-to-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50369","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#145): almost three years to the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have this saying that it only snows once every five years in Georgia, but miraculously, we got snow today.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a huge amount, but enough to give a nice white blanket to the world around us, to where the girls could wake up, look out the window and be marveled by the sight of falling snow a bright white morning outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

In preparation for the winter conditions, most of the state went into its typical overreaction of shutting everything down, but after the Snowpocalypse of 2013, I\u2019m not going to complain about the state erring on the side of safety and precaution versus thinking it won\u2019t be so bad and ending up being a national embarrassment all over again.\u00a0 The government shut down, schools closed, dance class closed.\u00a0 My waste management company straight up said they weren\u2019t coming, with no makeup day planned.\u00a0 Pest control company was scheduled to come, and they nope\u2019d out, understandably.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the best was my job, who graciously announced closure of the office on Friday in preparation for the wintery conditions.\u00a0 The kicker?\u00a0 Everyone works from home on Fridays anyway, so it\u2019s basically the equivalent of allowing people to go to church on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, with snow having arrived, it was my utmost priority to get outside and spend some time with the girls, since they basically will see snow only every five years for as long as we live in Georgia and the south.\u00a0 So, channeling one of my all-time favorite Calvin & Hobbes<\/a> strips, I didn\u2019t wait to have to be coerced and swayed to play some hooky from work so I could play with my kids in the snow, I basically just checked in at 9, got myself dressed and ready for the cold, and was out the door and in the snow with the girls as soon as I could.<\/span><\/p>\n

And let me say, how lucky we were to have gotten that real good type of snow, that\u2019s perfect for snowballs, making snowmen and being all malleable and perfect.\u00a0 Getting to build a snowman with my kids is a privilege I didn\u2019t think about how lucky I am to get to do it, considering the lack of opportunities it\u2019s more likely to be in coming years, and it brings me great joy just thinking about how I was able to do such.\u00a0 And the fact that my house just happened to have an actual carrot and lumps of coal for traditional eyes and noses, how fortunate that all have lined up so well.<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to name our snowman \u201cJon Snow, king in the south<\/em>;\u201d the girls were not impressed, and balked immediately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I said okay, we can call him Aegon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t like that either.<\/span><\/p>\n

But my au pair did have a wonderful idea, which was to recreate a photograph from when #2 wasn\u2019t even a year old, when the last time snow fell on Georgia.\u00a0 And it was from this, did I realize that it\u2019s almost been exactly three years since the last snowfall.\u00a0 Otherwise, I will never say no when the opportunity to do a timelapse photo.<\/span><\/p>\n

#2 usually isn\u2019t a fan of smiling for cameras, but clearly the arrival of snow seemed to elicit such a genuine happy response that here we are.\u00a0 Best snow day ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have this saying that it only snows once every five years in Georgia, but miraculously, we got snow today.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a huge amount, but enough to give a nice white blanket to the world around us, to where the girls could wake up, look out the window and be marveled by the sight … Continue reading Dad Brog (#145): almost three years to the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[100,193,178,192,129,8,9,26],"class_list":["post-50369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","category-photos","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-kids","tag-nostalgia","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-snow","tag-snowpocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50371,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369\/revisions\/50371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}