Weds. was a snow day and so is today! It’s not quite the snowmageddon of last year out there, but we certainly have more than a dusting.
It started sleeting yesterday morning and then switched to snow around 4 pm. It actually thundered throughout the storm… the weather lady called it a thundersnow. It came down fast and heavy.
It took Henry an hour and 20 minutes to get the 8 miles home. While he was out knocking heavy snow off fragile tree limbs around 7:45 pm. the sky lit up a blue-yellow color. It happened twice within a few seconds. We found out a local power transformer exploded. Crazy, huh? And my husband saw it happen.
The kids and I had a great day. I would consider homeschooling if we could sleep in every morning and start our day slowly….. poor Ryan got left behind by his sisters who finished their breakfasts before him.
I could do the homeschooling thing until I actually was accountable for teaching my kids arithmetic. I’m afraid we wouldn’t get very much of that done. But we would get a lot of baking done! We can always bake in this house. I made pumpkin muffins for the girls with a can of pumpkin I had left over from Thanksgiving. I used Courtney’s recipe. Look at that messy kitchen!
And the girls played. And played. And then watched a movie.
The sleet turned to snow and outside they went. They were out for two hours. Two. Whole. Hours. Walking around, making snow angels, sledding down our slope (it’s way too small to call a hill), and then trying to shovel. They were great. But when they came in, they were d-o-n-e. Natalie cried that her whole body hurt. She wanted some soup! Alas, all I had was lentils with rice so we made the obligatory hot chocolate to go with it.
I’m hoping we can make snow cream today!! Yeah!!
What are you doing today?
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Just an FYI baking involves arithmatic:) Just so ya know:)
we’ve never made snow cream before – i think we will this afternoon!
and, i would LOVE to homeschool, too. except for the teaching part 🙂 i like the “no schedule” part!
This is the second time today I’ve heard about snow cream, definitely going to have to make some this afternoon. Homeschooling….not that hard and yes we don’t typically stroll out of bed until 7:30…is that bad? 😀
So funny I found your snow cream recipe from last year in my recipe box just yesterday and I hope we get to use it this year! We have had two snows already so I may have missed my chance.
On the note of homeschool and math— we had a major math meltdown today. Riley (6th grade) does a internet course because I stink at math yet alone middle school math! I was scared to death to try and take that on myself. He told me today he hates the online course and needs a real teacher. Now what? I spent an hour reteaching what the internet course should have taught him and let’s just say I was re-learning some things I had long forgotten! Home schooling has its good days and not so good days. I wish today had been a snow day!