Snowfall... after blizzard... after snowfall... after yet another blizzard. We're talking a crazy amount of snow.
The kids in our school district haven't gone in two weeks this last go round of snow. TWO WEEKS!! And that's with the snow crews working around the clock to clear the roads!
Yet another reason why I love homeschooling. No matter what the weather, we'll still be done with school in early May.
Though I sincerely feel for the teachers and kids (and parents!) of the public school systems. My dad (a public school teacher) said he'll be in school until July 40th. :)
So for that reason, I know there are puh-lenty of people who are not lovin' this whole back-to-back blizzard thing we got going on.
But when I told my girls that there were people who actually didn't like snow, they were incredulous. They all sucked wind and then asked a collective question, "There are??! WHY?"
Oh yeah, they are sooo my children. Because in this house we LOVE snow. Blizzards, white-outs, being snowed in and all.
We love watching it fall...
watching The Man shovel it...
watching the sisters play in it...
playing in it ourselves...
Again.
and again.
and again.
But since you can only play in it so long when you don't have SNOW gloves (every time we've tried to find some, the stores have been sold out. *groan*), we've had to find other things to do during those long stretches where "Homebound" is the word of the
During the day (when little ones are napping), we've face painted.
played with that god-awful stuff known as moonsand...
Okay, so the Littles don't share my negative opinion of the beach-in-a-bag mess. They happen to LOVE it. Sooo they've played with it.
And one night, the girls and Jet made soft pretzels for dinner. :)
because what's the point of being snowed-in if you don't eat comfort food? ;)This was the first time that Alana was allowed to help.
though it must be said that the chunk of dough that she's holding never made it to the oven.
I think it ended up on the floor. with all sorts of "stuff" stuck in it.
though she had a blast being one of the "big girls" for the evening...
If you've never made soft pretzels, you really should! They're amazing!
Not that I'VE ever done it. I just watch. take pictures. and sample the end product.
But give this group of girls a few more years and they'll be making them on their own.
They LOVE being in the kitchen.
And I love watching them work with Jet... They're so blessed to have a Daddy who's more than willing to interact with them like this!
Me? I usually just take pictures....
Until I start getting this look. ;)
The "Enough pictures already!" look.
But no worries, I had another duty outside of Photographer... toting around the newborn who currently doesn't like to be more than 2 inches away from me.
Speaking of..I'm off to see if I can coerce my hub into giving me a backrub. Though I'm thinking I should probably offer to give him one.
being that HE'S the one who's shoveled the 46+ inches of snow so far this season.
