snow day or school?

i DISLIKE snow. ok. got that out of the way. as if i needed to tell everyone for the gazillionth time. maybe someday when i have a ton of gear and can spend a few days snowboarding without getting my floor all wet from snowy boots i'll like it a little better. but for now i'm sticking to the disliking.

we don't usually get snow so late in the 'winter'. and i don't think we've EVER gotten this much at once since we've moved here. it started last night, and it's still coming down now. of course, people around here have a big panic and call a state of emergency and cancel everything because they don't know how to deal with it. no school buses running today, but i don't like to decide school days based on what everyone else in the neighborhood is doing. and since we don't have to take a bus to school, i don't cancel school because there's snow. but by the time my eyes were ready for the day, my boys had been outside playing in it for over an hour. and in comes marz, holding her snow hat, saying she wanted to go outside and play. so then the mental dilemma begins... do i give them the day off or not? blabbers starts to get marz ready and is voicing disappointment because she wants to go too, but has work to do. so i break down and tell her to go ahead and not worry about her work.


marz is getting dressed and asks her sister to put her 'seat belts' on. i'm thinking she meant the buckles on her snow pants.

luigi decided he would have dash help him pile snow into a big mountain, and then dig a tunnel through.


all in all, the boys were out almost 3 hrs. the girls only lasted about 45 minutes. and i only lasted long enough to take pictures. that was already too much for me. the 20-30 mph winds weren't really helping matters either. of course, everyone had to have hot chocolate when they came inside...



this is luigi's mug. of course the saying suits him just perfectly.

and here's what they did while they waited for the hot chocolate to be ready. of course watching tv isn't the best brain-stimulating activity. but they ARE watching schoolhouse rock, which is sorta teaching things. this episode is the one on bones, which dash claims is his favorite.

by the time they were finished with hot chocolate, warming fingers up, and watching a couple episodes of SHR, it was still not even 10am. so we snuck in some snow time, some educational movie time, some marshmallow time, and still were able to get school done, just pushed back an hour or so. it's the beauty of homeschooling that allows for both a snow day AND school!