Snow SNOW Day

When Eddie woke up about 1:00am to check on a crying kid, he noticed it was snowing big flakes outside. I thought for a moment that we might have a snow day, there had been no predictions about snow in the forecast so this would come as a big surprise. My hopes were momentarily dashed when I woke up and looked at the clock, 6:15am. No automated call from the LRSD letting us know that school had been cancelled. I logged onto the website from my iphone next to my bed. Yippee, schools were closed! The phone rang a couple of minutes later informing us of the closure.

I got up, and sure enough the ground was white. It had stopped snowing, so Eddie got ready to head to work. I caught up on dishes and laundry while the kids slept in. Brian and Emily didn’t wake up until 9:00am, a new record. I think everyone was tired from the birthday party yesterday. Eddie called just before 10:00am, he wanted to make sure that we looked out the window to see the big beautiful snowflakes falling. I immediately got everyone dressed, bundled up and outside to play.

We took pictures, played in the snow, and built a snowman. It was so pretty to watch the snow falling. I love snow!! After about an hour, Emily was ready to come inside, and Danielle was cold. So we headed inside, to warm up. Brian stayed outside to play with the neighbors.

After it had been snowing hard for about an hour and a half, I called Eddie to have him head home. I didn’t want him to get stuck at the office. He arrived just as we were getting ready for lunch. It snowed hard until about 2:00pm, when it had warmed up enough that the snow changed to rain. Eddie was planning to go outside and build more snowpeople with the kids but now it was too wet to play. We scooped up some fresh snow to make snow ice cream before it got too wet,we needed ice cream to go with our brownies. I grew up in Colorado where there is lots of snow each year and I have never heard of snow ice cream??



Update...Tuesday and Wednesday were also snow days. The LRSD made the decision to keep the schools closed because of icy conditions especially in the neighborhoods. It was a nice break from the daily routine.