Snowlellujia!

We have about 34 inches of snow on the ground outside of our house.  And all but about 4 of those inches are from one, massive, wonderful storm over this past weekend.

The deluge of white stuff rendered escape from our house impossible, so Shaun and I spent our time watching movies, playing with the munchkins, cooking comfort food, cleaning cabinets (me), shoveling (Shaun), cleaning the fish tank, eating, and playing online.

I love it!

My poor extroverted husband is going a little stir crazy.  I told him he could talk to the kids all day to ease his need for company and that would soothe my introverted soul too.  (Because truly, there's only so many games of princess dress up that one woman can play without losing her dang mind).  He didn't quite see my point there.  Something about adult conversation and company... and being among the masses.  Yeah, count me out.

At the moment, Shaun and Bean are outside digging paths to our neighbors' houses.  C is curled up next to me watching Sesame Street, (to save me from having to bundle her to high heaven for her to be outside for all of 11 seconds), and Sayer is taking a lovely nap.

We don't have many plans for the day, which is exactly how I like it.  I might grade some papers, make some bagels, or take some photos.  We're supposed to get another foot or so tomorrow, so I'm guessing we'll be marooned for couple more days at least.

(You won't hear me complaining)

Snow Day

We are in the midst of a lovely snow storm. (It's still falling!) Anyway, we're enjoying our time together as a family so I'll be back to my bloggy normal-ness tomorrow :)

Snow Days

We had a delightful bit of snow right in time for Bean's birthday.  She was absolutely thrilled at the chance to go outside and play in something other than frozen temperatures.  And of course, I was elated to go with her.  

We visited the animals in her zoo where she fed the tigers snow sandwiches and snow noodles.  The bears had a full helping of snow soup.

 

Then we chased the dogs around and watched them try to eat the snow.  I taught her the ever important snow play mantra, "Watch out where the doggies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."  She dubbed it "pee-pee snow" and wrinkled her nose when she came across it on her treks through the yard.

  

We hid in the magic tree for awhile and tried to stay away from the big, giant DRAGON MONSTER!  The tree provides optimal invisibility.

We only thought we saw him a few times...  then he turned into a nice dragon monster, so we invited him into our tree area for a snack and some tea.  Bean was sort of shocked at how big he was.
 

 

But he settled right in and we served snow cakes and stick popsicles lightly dusted with some snow sprinkles.  The dragon's particular favorite was the snow pie, but I wasn't a huge fan.  After awhile, the dragon gave Bean a nuzzle and flew off to his cave for a nap.

We went in for dinner and then to bed for some nice dreams, lightly sprinkled with the possibility of more snow.