Dear Daniel

Dear Daniel,

It finally snowed today! Since I last wrote you, it "warmed up" a bit. (All that means is that the temperature didn't drop below freezing for about a week, but it was still cold.) The last few days it has been really foggy, but there has been no snow. We live on the sixteenth floor of a sixteen-story apartment building, and when it's foggy, we can't see anything out the window. It's like we're in the middle of a cloud. It's kind of fun, but it's not snow, and snow is what I've really been wanting.

For me, the weeks between the time when the weather turns cold and the first snowfall always seem very long. I'm like a little kid; I just can't wait for the snow to come! Most of the adults want there to be as little snow as possible, but not me! I get so excited when I see the first flakes start to come down. And all winter long, whenever it's snowing, it makes my day. I guess that it's because I grew up without snow, so I'm not tired of it yet.

Today was a very stressful, hectic day. I had a bunch of editing to do for my job in the morning, and I was so busy that I didn't even have time to take a shower or eat lunch before I had to leave home at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. But when I glanced out the window just before running out the door (I was late), I saw that it had started to snow, and suddenly I felt so light and happy inside!

It snowed for about thirty minutes, and the flakes were big fluffy clumps of hundreds of snowflakes all stuck together. It looked like thousands of little pieces of lace drifting down to earth out of the sky. I don't think the snow will stay on the ground, because the temperature is a few degrees above freezing right now, but maybe it will snow some more tonight. If the temperature drops overnight, the world could be all white in the morning!

Love, Sharon