I grew up in MN so yes it snowed a lot here. I loved the snow back then. Not so much now. We use to have snowball fights, build snowmen, and snow forts. I remember one time I got trapped in the snow fort when someone stood on top of it while I was inside, it just caved in. They had to dig me out.
We also drove snowmobiles.
My favorite was making those snow angels, I was a perfectionist even then, I hated foot steps around my angel and would work very hard for them not to be close to mine. Of coarse that didn't work very well, I would usually end up wrecking my angel by falling back in it. So I'd start over. What an obsessed child I was :). I also tried to ski TWICE, I had a hard time staying up! And of coarse there was Ice activities: skating, broom hockey, falling down! :)
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Yes, growing up in metro Detroit, we had a lot of snow. When I was a kid, dad would take us to this park that had a man-made sledding hill for a while. Mom would dress us in snowmobile suits and send us off. When we got home, Mom would be making hot chocolate on the stove with Nestle's Quick and milk (this was before microwaves). It was soooo good. I also liked making snowmen and snow angels. Loved the occasional snowball fight too. Now that I'm older and have poor circulation, I don't care so much for snow. I do like the heavy, wet snows though. Everything gets quiet outside and the flakes are as big as half dollars. I still want to make snow angels even at 39, but I have yet to actually plop my butt in the snow to do it. Even as I watch it coming down from the cozy warm inside, I still have to have my hot chocolate. Take care, Sheila
Nope, Nope... I grew up in Miami FL... no snow!!! At all!
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Where I grew up (and still live) It really did not Snow very often (usually if we wanted snow, we'd have to go up to the mountains).
In the rare Winters when it did snow, we (my cousin and I) would go outside, throw snowballs, make snow angels and if there was enough snow make snowmen.
Then we would hurry back inside where it was nice and warm and have a cup of hot Coco.
~Nikki~
I`ve lived in the midwest most of my life, so I definitely grew up around snow. There was always the standard snow forts and sledding, as well as snowmen and snow ball fights. One year my cousins and I took the hood of an old vw bug,my uncle had chopped car too make a dune buggy, so anyway, we took the hood of it and converted it into a sled. About a half dozen of us built a snow ramp and found the most bone breakingly dangerous hill to build it on of course! So we head down this hill to what was surely to be our ealry deaths, when we hit the ramp my cousin Steve flew off the side of our hood/sled and somehow just avoided being crushed to death. The rest of us stayed on for the full ride and pretty much busted our butts on impact with the ground. Oh to be a young stupid boy again, instead of coursewhat I am 2day....................a stupid man! LOL
I grew up in Illinios. Snow, Snow, Snow.
I hate snow. Its pretty at Christmas time, but the thats it.
I love Summer and Fall.
I am a warm weather person.
I didnt even like to play in it as a kid. I would sit inside and do other things.
In my next life, I will probably come back as an Eskimo.......
Growing up in Southern England, we did used to have snow each winter. In fact , I was born at the end of March and my Dad said there was a blizzard on the night I was born ! But these days we are very lucky to see snow at all. At the moment we are going through a freezing spell, but whereas the rest of the country has some heavy snow, we have had very little at all ! Sandra x
Growing up in WV, during the sixties, it seemed to snow a lot more back then. I loved the snow. It made everything look so beautiful. We would all get together, the kids I mean, burn a tire, and slide down a hill on a truck hood. We also had some saucer sleds, and that was fun too. The thing I loved the most about snow was the absolute silence, and the clean fresh smell. When you breathed in, you felt like your nose was freezing on the inside. Going back in the house, letting your feet and hands warm up, they would hurt so much you wanted to cry. But we all went out again, to build snow men, forts, and sleigh ride.
I live in Mo. so it snows through witer i hate it with a passion...Never liked it even as a child
I lived with snow up until I was 11, when I moved to Hawaii. I loved snow... but I had an allergic reaction to the dry cold in both Connticut and Scotland... and would develope hives on any part of my skin that was exposed to the air. My mom would bundle me up like a mummy, with just my eyes showing. Luckily I've outgrown that allergy and love when it snows here.
yes i grew up in illinois and live there to this day- so snow is a regular word in my vocabulary. i enjoy the beauty of the snow and really dont mind driving in it. i love to watch it sparkle on the trees and cover the roofs of the houses in my neighborhood. we always made snowmen every year and enjoyed sledding. my sisters and friends used to walk about 2 miles down abandoned rail road tracks to where the old tracks met the overpass of a major interstate- we would then side step up the steep concrete embankment and tobaggon down the concrete embankment across the level path of the old tracks down a second hill and stop just shy of an old caved in railroad bridge. God must have been watching over us- because here we were 5 or 6 stupid 10-12 year olds, 2 miles away from anybody- climbing up concrete as the cars sped by going 70 miles/hr down not one but two of the steepest hills- catching a little air, but hoping that you judged your speed right or risk going 20 feet down over the edge where the bridge used to be. god- what a thrill- so much fun- my kids better never read this- i would kill them myself if they ever tried anything like that!!!
I spent most of my childhood in Ohio, so snow games were definitely part of my youth. I did the usual, sledding and building snow people, snow forts, and snow angels. I also liked breaking the icicles off the roof and spearing things with them.
I grew up in what is considered a place where people excersize little. Chicago. This is a city of extremes. It is either too hot, too cold, too dry or too wet. And if you don't like that, wait a while. It'll change quickly. Anyway, I hate snow. My happiest memories of snow was in 1967 when the schools were closed for three days. You couldn't leave the house because the snow was so heavy. So I stayed in and stayed warm. Things have changed since then. Snow removal is an art form now, and very effective. We never have snow days. I think my children have missed maybe three or four days in twelve years, and was usually because something happened at the school.
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Unfortunately no, I live somewhere where every other Christmas we are outside in freakin' shorts. It did snow here once fairly recently that was pretty significant for us and that was New Years Eve 2000. My husband and I took the kids out in it and just played and played. A friend of mine was also at my house with her two children and they ended up just spending the night and we spent half of the night out in the front yard laughing like maniacs because we were not accustomed to such. It was great!
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Snow? I remember snow, thank god I don't live in it anymore!
Snowmobiles sound like fun! Makes me wish I'd lived somewhere where it snows more!
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