Adults across Massachusetts had a near-universal experience Monday morning, busting out shovels to unbury their homes after Sunday’s monster storm dumped more than a foot of snow across the region.
Because it was a snow day for most schools, lots of kids helped with the chore. Others sat inside, sled in hand, waiting for the moment they could get to the closest hill.
Dozens of families braved the elements near the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common.
Emilia Yeung, 7, wore a fuzzy winter hat she got from Santa. She stopped working on her snowman to report on the snow’s condition.
“I feel like it’s very like soft. So it’s like our sled just keeps getting stuck,” she said, disappointed. “That’s why, like, we builded a snowman to have some more fun instead of sledding because we just keep, like, stopping, like when we sled.”
Emilia said she was shocked when she opened her front door Thursday morning.
“The stairs were all covered and then we couldn’t, like, walk, so my dad took my sled and went down on it,” she said. “It doesn’t really look like a staircase, it looks more like a mountain or something.”
Having faced enough adversity that morning, Emilia ran back to join her brother in the snow.
But Grace Smith, 4, said she would embrace both the fun and hard parts of winter.
“I’m going to sled and shovel,” she said when asked how she planned to enjoy the snow.
Katie Smith, Grace’s mother, said her hard work would be rewarded with a hot cocoa and a playdate.
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