The grand tally of days of school canceled because of snow was EIGHT!! Mostly, they were welcome, and we mostly played outside in the snow, read, and watched movies.
On one occasion when school was out, we went to Menchies for frozen yogurt. The kids learned the valuable lesson that sometimes putting all the different flavors together can be a bad thing.
We also made rainbow Jell-O. A friend gave me the idea and since it takes ALL day I thought we would do it when school got canceled. Who knew Jell-O could be so beautiful?
Church was even canceled one Sunday. It was only canceled a few minutes before we were going to walk out the door to drive to church so we were all ready. We played games and made a human pyramid instead of church. We also organized all the games in the boys closet….too many!
This is a great hill by our house for sledding but it ends in a pond. The kids kept telling me it was completely safe because they could just stop themselves before they went onto the ice. It made me nervous but was a blast!
Matthew is still our king of snow adventures. He LOVES snow and can spend hours playing in it. The only thing that holds him back is wet gear. His gloves were always in the drier! On the pictured day above I went out with him and had a great chat with our neighbor Nancy while the snow kept coming. I couldn’t believe how much snow was on my hood when I came back in. Lucy and Conrad also enjoyed playing in the snow but they had very limited jaunts. Charlie would sometimes go out but mainly spent a day off of school marathon reading.
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