There was a light dusting of snow this morning when I woke up. I have no idea what made this memory pop into my head. My mind is a mysterious place…I will be the first to admit it! Anyway, the year of the snowman and woman we turned into hippies! It’s is a fun memory to tell, so I will get to it.
Back when you’re young, you just love looking forward to creating something out of snow. For some reason the cold doesn’t bother you in the slightest either. So this one morning, we woke up and had gotten a nice couple feet or more of snow. Autumn and I must have been 11 or 12 years old. Our friends and favorite neighbor boys came over to fetch us twinnies to get outside and create some special snowman.
Alex and Tim were just always the greatest with their imaginations, so this was going to be awesome fun. We all headed to our backyard, playing around and throwing a few snowballs first. Tim and Autumn started this, so we had a small snow battle but got down to business. We all decided to have the coolest and best snowman on our block. How lofty that sounds, but we all were competitors in our own fashion. The snowman came together so nicely, it was so big! At least it seemed like it was, but we were young. Autumn insisted we make a Mrs. Snowman, Tim agreeing as always with his buddy. OK, it seemed like a fine idea we all though…Let’s really go for it! On we worked, before long Mrs Snowman joined Mr. How to decorate them? We talked among ourselves and hit on a fine idea, too I must say.
We twinnies raced inside our house to gather a few things, the boys took off for theirs to do the same. Gaining our parents permission, who got into the spirit of things…What a fun set of parents we had. Soon, the twinnies and the boys were out in the backyard. The Mrs. Snowman had a floppy hat for her head, we had used some yarn for hair, button eyes in place. Mom had donated a flowery old blanket for her fashion attire. Autumn and I fashioned her a nice getup, slipped the Peace sign in her hand and she was all done. Yes, she was a knockout!
On to the Mr. Snowman, he got a nice pair of sunglasses and a colorful headband. Adding button eyes, he also got draped in an old blanket. We fancied it was a fetching looking poncho and added his sign that said Love. They were all complete, we stepped back to admire our handiwork. By now both sets of parents, our sibilings, too had gathered to congratulate us on a job well done!
Yay, they all loved Mr and Mrs. Hippie Snowman and his Woman! Both Dads took pictures, one of them ended up hitting our very small town newspaper. Thrilling the twinnies and boys beyond reason! We ended up the talk on not only the neighborhood, but also of our little town. That makes me laugh out loud, thinking back to that year…Smalltown celebs we were for just a short while anyway! 😉 🙂
TWINS FOREVER 
Another fond and fun memory 🙂 those was the best snow “people” ever. Just thinking of it, makes me smile Twinnie 🙂 TF ❤ = Twins Forever
It’s a very good memory, such fun days! 🙂 Must agree they were the best hippie snowman and woman, weren’t they? 🙂 TF <3=Twins Forever
haha, aww.
I know, we sure had some unusual things we did as kids but it was fun! 🙂
Always loved snow, just wish I get to spend more time under the full moon in snow… 😀
Thanks for stopping by Shilpa! 🙂 I wish you had some time to enjoy snow, too.
Ha, how fun!
It was, oh to be a kid again!
You both are so fun! I remember making snow angels when we had our cabin in my childhood. We weren’t into snow skiing, but we sledded and tobogganed. Good times I remember. My sister, who is now, 60, still has the faithful toboggan! Thanks for jarring my memory, too! 🙂
We were so inspired to build those special hippie snow people way back when. Snow angels are still fun to do, that makes me sound ever so grown up! 🙂 It must have been fun having the cabin, then you could enjoy the snow. Sledding and tobogganing is fun, Wow about your sister still having the toboggan! 🙂