.be happy for this moment.this moment is your life.

We all remember the trudge to elementary school in the snow in our Sorels (or was it only me?). Dragging our heels all the way across the field felt like it took days. And now we wear shoes all year. Lots of people don’t even own boots, and if they do the boots are “fashionable” (uggs?) not the clodhopper Sorels of the past. Are the kids still trudging to school in their Sorel-like boots? Or is that a thing of the past? It seems like rite of passage to me, once you have done it for 6 years, you are all of a sudden no longer required to wear them everyday. You hit junior high and the Sorels only come out for snowdays or tobogganing. And as you continue to get older you wear them less and less. Maybe because you no longer toboggan, and snowdays are an excuse to sleep in, not play outside. No wonder people are so stressed out - road rage, the fight to the top etc. - we all just need to go out and play in the snow; make some snow angels and go tobogganing. Then come inside for hot chocolate and a cookie. Its just like we should all stop for an afternoon nap, and wake up to have milk and cookies.

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