SNOW DAY

It's a snow day!  Which means everyone slept in and we had time to make pancakes for breakfast!  Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes.  YUM!

I'm not complaining, because I like sleeping in as much as the next person, but I just can't figure out why we're having a snow day.  Last time it snowed, we had 8 or 9 inches, tree limbs were coming down all over the city, and everyone went to school.  Today, we have about three inches.  I can still see the grass in my back yard.

I guess the weather man frightened everyone with his predictions of 13 inches.  I don't know what mathematical equation they used to decide when to call off school, but it's obviously some of that newfangled math the kids (and certain superintendents) are using these days.

Our superintendent is from Wyoming.  You'd think he'd be experienced with winter weather.  But he just can't seem to get it right.

Maybe being from Wyoming is his problem.  I spent most of my school age years in Wyoming, and we never had one snow day.  Not one.  EVER.  Not even when the snow was drifted up above the windows.  So maybe our superintendent has no frame of reference when it comes to calling a snow day.  I hear people from Canada have the same problem.

So here we are, all cooped up inside.  Together.

Apparently, the pancakes are going to be the highlight of our day.  Things have rapidly gone downhill from there.  It's windy and ugly out.  Not exactly go-outside-and-build-a-snowman kind of weather.  So everyone has resorted to fighting over whose turn it is to play the X Box. 

But the pancakes were delicious!

SNOWBAMA 2011

That's what the locals are calling it, since the President just happens to be in the state for our first big snowstorm of the season.   And by locals I mean myself and the guy who does the traffic report on the news.  According to my high tech weather instruments, we've got almost 9 inches so far, and it's still coming down!

Yes, we had school.  C's all bundled up and ready to go.  The other two leave before the sun is up, so maybe we'll get cute snow photos of them after school.

On Monday, it was nearly 80 degrees.  Today the high will be 34.  Which means that the roads were still warm and not much stuck to them.  Which also means no snow day.  We're the only school district in a 3 county area that didn't get to stay home and sip hot chocolate--typical!

There's plenty of the white stuff piling up everywhere else though.  It's wet, heavy snow.  Which unfortunately means there are a lot of tree branches down around town.  BIG tree branches.

Yes, that should be attached to a tree, not lying in the middle of the road.  We live in a newer neighborhood where the trees aren't very big and we even lost a few branches.  Some people are really going to have a lot of cleaning up to do though.

But it sure is pretty.

SNOW DAY: PART 2

Trust me, this is going to be a good sequel.

I'd have to say things went wrong first thing with T & C's indoor tug-o-war. Particularly because E was sitting on the floor using the laptop. If we have two rules around here, they are NO tug-o-war in the house and NO using the laptop on the floor.

Just FYI, a broken screen on a 6-month old, $600 laptop costs $450 to repair. I think I know what the consequence of this little incident will be. NO MORE LAPTOP! I have to give T some credit though. He left a note on my bed that read:

This is to pay for the computer. $4 were enclosed.

Obviously, these photos were taken much, much later in the day, after everyone had stopped crying. It kind of reminded me of why I dread summer vacation.

SNOW DAY!

HOORAY, NO SCHOOL! Well, that's what the kids said. Since I'm a mean mom, I still made them get dressed and brush their teeth. C came downstairs wearing shorts. I reminded him he couldn't wear shorts when it was snowing outside.

"But we're not going OUT in the snow." It's hard to argue with that kid sometimes.

Maybe we'll venture out tomorrow, when it stops snowing. Yep, you heard me right. It's going to snow for 2 days straight. We could have 2 feet by the time this is over!

The kids are doing a surprisingly good job of entertaining themselves, cooped up as they are. As I write this, T and C are sending stuffed animals down a make-shift zip line they've rigged up to the banister. I'm pretty sure some animals WILL be harmed during the creation of this blog post.

I really need to go to the grocery store. Instead, I'll have to get creative with what I can find in the cupboards. Anyone have a good recipe that uses Corn Pops, tomato soup and tuna?

LET IT SNOW!

Look at what we woke up to this morning! I don't mind snow on October 10, but a high temperature of 26 degrees? That I could do without.

Of course, there is no such thing as "too cold" when you're a kid and it's the first snowfall of the season. Good thing I have some hot chocolate in the house.