Snow-where to be found

It is January. Yesterday it was in the 70s. What the heck?!?! I chose this month to do a unit on Winter because, well, according to the calendar it is WINTER! So each day we read about things like mittens, snowmen, snowflakes, cold and then cheerfully burst outside into sunshine and toss our coats into a pile before we clamber all over the playground. Yeah, I am sure the kids are really making a lot of connections between what we are doing in the classroom and real life!! Then again, am I supposed to keep these plans in a file somewhere and pray it snows sometime this year so I can interrupt whatever we are doing and pull out the "winter" lesson plans and do them then? The snow would only last a day or two anyway and most likely school would be closed the whole time. Ugh!! My kids must think I come from another planet when I discuss snow and sleds and skis and snowballs and snowmen and anything requiring more than a few inches of snow. Heck, even snow is probably an abstract concept to them. So we will forge onward with out styrofoam snowballs and snow, our paper snowflakes and shaving cream snowdrifts. If nature refuses to cooperate I will do everything in my power to create a sense of snow in the classroom even if it is spring-time warm outside. If my children could talk I can only imagine what they would say....like have you lost your mind???