Mom Turning Living Room Into the North Pole Gets Mixed Reaction: 'Regret'

A video of a woman who turned her living room into a snowy scene has gone viral on TikTok, receiving over 803,000 views.

The clip posted by TikTok user @samgrace_22 has a caption that reads, "Turning my front room into the north pole." It begins with the mother standing in a living room and slowly opening a black plastic bag that appears to be filled with fake snow.

Before tearing open the bag completely, she stands still, staring at the bag, and appears to be deliberating whether to go ahead.

After a prolonged pause, she fully commits herself to the task, tearing open the bag and pouring the fake snow onto the living room floor. She then empties two more bags full of fake snow onto the floor before jumping into the fluffy pile, feet first, from the sofa.

She's later seen sliding through the snowy pile on her knees and sitting in it while throwing clumps of fake snow into the air. The clip ends with an Elf on the Shelf doll placed in the pile of fake snow.

Will We Have a White Christmas This Year?

As the TikTok video suggests, many people long for fairy-tale snow scenes during the holiday season. So will there be a white Christmas this year in your area?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has listed the areas of the U.S. where you have the best chance of seeing snow on Christmas, based on weather history:

• Minnesota
• Maine
• Upstate New York
• The Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia
• Practically anywhere in Idaho
• The Rockies
• The Sierra Nevada

Those areas least likely to have a white Christmas (where the probability is less than 10 percent) are the West Coast, Gulf Coast and Deep South (which typically comprises Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana), according to the NOAA.

These predictions are based on the historic probability of there being at least 1 inch of snow on the ground at weather stations across the country on December 25, according to the latest (1991-2020) U.S. Climate Normals from the NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

However, the NOAA said that "the actual conditions in any year may vary widely from these because the weather patterns present will determine the snow on the ground or snowfall on Christmas Day."

The TikTok video left several TikTokers in stitches. In a comment that got 38,500 likes, user I'm charlotte btw⚐ wrote, "Too late now you've done it," while Kara Sey said, "Still gonna be cleaning that up next Christmas [crying/ laughing emoji]" in a comment that got 25,800 likes

User danicabolwell wrote: "Then u regret doing it when [you're] cleaning for hours and hours after Christmas was over."

Chel Brilliant said: "But I gotta ask.... Did you regret it when you were cleaning up [smiling with teeth showing emoji]?"

User Christine wrote: "Now that's dedication for you it's the pause before you did it for me [crying/laughing emoji], happy Christmas girl x," in a comment that got 22,800 likes.

In a comment that got 55,000 likes, Lukee wrote, "That contemplating expression... hilarious [crying/laughing emojis]," while Daisydoo_soap said, "You can see the voice in your head say 'it's for the kids' [crying/laughing and smiley face with floating hearts emojis]."

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