It's Beginning to Look A lot Like....

Christmas! Our kids are just a little bonkers here today about the huge amount of snow that fell last night. As a matter of fact, we haven't had snow of this magnitude since the first winter in our house here....7 years ago! Does this look familiar to Ana? Last winter in Russia, she would have been just 1. Our understanding from speaking with locals in St Petersburg is that the weather there was marked by cold rain, sleet and snow from mid-October through April. Several commented how "depressed" they were that the winter was approaching. Anyone owning a car is "required" to have chains on the tires in the height of the winter. They claimed the sun never came out at all. So we gathered that St Petersburg was beautiful in the short times that the weather was nice but dreary the remainder of the year. I am so thankful all of our adoption travel was completed by November 4!