"We chose to fight in the snow war Dividing the brigade."
That's how the Chinese exchange students next door told us, with the help of an internet translator I'm sure, that they were ready to pick teams for a big snowball fight. And what a fight it was!
You need to understand that when it actually snows in Bellingham, it's a big deal. Everything gets cancelled because people don't know how to drive in the snow. One half inch will delay the school system for an hour. (I know, my dear Coloradins, it sounds crazy, but here 2 inches is a huge deal.)
These last couple days it snowed a whopping 2.5 inches where we live. All my siblings were ecstatic--and busy. They built four snow forts. It may sound like too many, but it doesnt' when you think like we huge families do. We invited another huge family to come play with us, and also most of the neighborhood. The battle raged almost 4 hours, with little people mass producing snowballs and bigger people pasting each other. I don't ever remember being so cold and wet, but I also don't ever remember having as much fun in the snow.

Now I'm praying it will snow and cancel the next quiz meet (Saturday) so that I can make up all the review I should have done this afternoon.