February 6, 2012

  • Let it Snow!

    Friday was rainy.  There were promises of snow.  Lots and lots of snow.  It was coming from Colorado, as it does, and the storm got the nickname Snowmageddon.  This picture popped up on all my local friends' Facebook feeds on Friday as the snow finally came that night.  Along with it came the cancelations.  No speech tournament for Teen I, no debate tournament for Teen II, no Little League registration for Teen III.

    As an adult I am really ok with being snowed in.  More than ok.  But the kids were disappointed to miss their activities and somehow thought that I would drive them to their friends' houses or to the sledding hill outside of town.  I was also supposed to believe that my most princess-y child was going to walk a mile in the snow to sled and then walk a mile home.  I forbid her from going.  Mostly because she was not dressed appropriately and would whine and call me and I just wasn't going to deal with it.  "Go read a book or watch a movie.  Just enjoy being snowed in," I said.  We had this conversation as I shoveled out snow from the driveway and I built a huge snowman.  Princess Teen just stood on the porch arguing with me.  My youngest had the best snow days.  He was literally outside all day Saturday and Sunday building snow forts with neighborhood kids.  It was perfect snow fort/snow man snow - wet and sticky.

    Everything is cleared out and we are all back to business on Monday.  "I don't even get a snow day from school!" the Princess Teen moaned this morning.

    Nope.

Comments (3)

  • that photo made me snort, so unexpected was it.

    i support snow days in all their forms: snowed in, going nowhere; digging out, crawling to work; playing hooky, driving to the sled hill; saturday snow, playing in the yard. snow makes winter good, and spring a thing to look forward to.

  • learning to entertain yourself, by yourself is such an important skill to have.

    best picture ever. i knew you lived far away from michigan but didn't realize it was on Hoth.

  • This is why I forbid my loins from ever producing Princess Teens.  I'd rather have them spew active land mines.  Less trouble.

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