Happy Birthday, Old Man Winter!

by Julie Brooks Hiller

TESSA WOKE TO the sound of purring snowplows. She tossed aside her quilt and rushed to the window. “Snow!” Tessa squealed with delight at seeing the white lawn, the white birdbath, the white sidewalk, and the white car (which was actually red underneath the snow). It was the first snow Tessa could remember in a long, long time. She stuffed her feet into her slippers and dashed to the kitchen. Her nose caught a whiff of banana pancakes before she slid to a stop in front of the wall calendar. Her fingers danced across the days and weeks before finding the right date: December 21. “Oh,” Tessa gasped in awe as she read the words on the calendar. “The First Day of Winter. . . . Mom!” Tessa’s mother set…

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