When there is some snow behind the window and you sit in the warm place...

YES! We have snow... very very wet now, sometimes what is coming from above is a mixture of snow and rain, but it is white outside... and it makes me feel both happy and melancholic...
I have in my head one image... I wish I could go in the middle of the night to the middle of the lake, with a friend by my side, and do some iceskating with the millions of stars twinkling above my head. And then stand there for a while, when you have that magical Northern Lights, those rays of green on that darn, navy blue sky... Hearing the craking of ice far away, and realising that it is freeezing, but you feel warm inside. Having a walk back to the warm room and warm cup of minttu chocolate... It is a dream this evening...
I remember so well sledging, iceskating and snow fights with friends. First Mrs. Snowman made on a way back home one January night, another snowman in the middle of the lake, wishes on the bridge, that came true (a warning, you have to be prepared for what you wish, it might come true!). I remember the sledging with my friends from work or from dormitory :) I remember lessons of iceskating,with very patient teachers :) And Northern Lights, when I was so much impressed, that I locked my key :) And the walk to the view point in Lapland, when the snow was so big I could barely walk ;)
I remember when my Father was taking me and my brother, and few kids from the neighbourhood on the sledge, and was pulling us behind the car... We had so much fun then, although my Mum was telling us to shut our mouth in order not to breathe the cold air :) And I remember that we were making snow angels in front of the house so that we could see it through the window :) the snowfights with friends, boys waiting after school (I was coming back home sooo late...)... all the snowmen... And the first tries on the skies... and those a bit later :)
I have all those memories back when I see the snow behind my window. And so many more... with so many faces behind, from my childhood, youth, and a bit later youth ;)
And now? I know I will go to make a snowman. Soon. With some of my friends... We will roll in snow and laugh and then come back to have a cup of hot tea. And we are going to be kids again :) And I wish that for you too... to feel that pure joy of creating something, of doing something you can only do once in a while... I wish you ... happy snowmen!!!