What a winter! We've had eight snow days in the past few weeks so our kiddos have been home from school A LOT! We've also had one 2 hour delay and one early release day in addition to the eight days of cancelled school. I agreed with about four of the snow days because either we had a monumental amount of snow or an ice storm which makes driving treacherous and crazy dangerous.
Currently, the snow is piled so high on the curb in front of our house that it's probably 12 feet tall. In fact, a friend came over the other night for Book Club and called from the circle to ask which house was ours because she couldn't see the house numbers on any of the houses because the snow was in the way. This is because we live at the end of the cul-de-sac and that's where the plow puts all the snow from the end of the circle.
The kids love sledding on the hills in our backyard. Most days, I send them outside and watch from the window but I did go out the other day and capture them sledding. Rachel isn't satisfied with our hills at home anymore so she and her friends often head to other locales like the water retention basin at the bottom of our neighborhood or the high school playing fields where there are some gigantic hills. She told me she used to think the hills in our yard were huge when she was little. Alas, she is growing up!
