Embracing the storms of winter...and kids alike

Growing up in Michigan, a state surrounded by lakes, wet snow was the only kind I really experienced as a kid. Heavy and damp, we’d make igloos, and snow forts, and whole families of snow people whenever we got enough snow to support such endeavors -- which wasn’t all that frequently. Snow would come and go as the temperatures rarely stayed below freezing for more than a week or two, and by March…