They said it would be cold. They said it would snow. They said we would need fancy special winter boots. After a mild first winter I didn’t really believe them anymore. A few light snow storms, nothing worse than a regular winter in New York. I couldn’t figure out what everyone was worried about.
Then this winter came. At first it was some really cold days, then a sheet of ice for three days that had everyone scrambling. I wore my running spikes to walk to get Miral. It was so cold we cold only be outside for short periods of time and I ordered some hand and feet warmers. Then….it snowed for three weeks straight. Not a little bit of snow. A lot of snow each time. Tons of snow. So much snow that Kyiv closed school for the first time in ten years! And the craziest part is we loved it! Maybe it was because we were home from work and school a lot with quarantines and break and didn’t have to move around a lot in the many feet of snow. There was an amazing sledding hill right behind out house that we went to almost every day. Miral’s school stayed open almost the entire time so we sledded her back and forth. I think this may be the only time we experience so much snow and winter in a time where we were mostly together and not running off to work and school.
Also this view from our bedroom window never got old.
I managed to keep running through most of the winter which is pretty amazing. It just meant I had to dress up in getups like this one. Once I realized that two socks, two gloves, two pants could be worn I was all set.
We even managed to go ice skating in the snow.
Here is the sledding hill and our apartment window is right behind that tree on the right. We couldn’t have asked for a better deal.
I’ll miss the snowy runs and the beautiful clear blue skies in the winter. I’ll miss the big snowfalls. I won’t miss the cold toes I always had, but I would take them for a few more days in this beautiful place.
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