SNOW DAY SHENANIGANS

I thought about titling this post "Snow Day 2018" in the hopes that this will be the only one we get all year.  Then, I used the word "shenanigans," and apparently the title line doesn't spell check (good to know 😬), and I had to type it into my phone notes to make sure I was spelling it correctly.  Why is it so hard to spell?

Anywho... it snowed here in AR.  If you've been around this blog long, you will know that I have a love/hate relationship with snow days that has drifted towards hate in past years.  It is TERRIBLE for our business and requires a lot of extra work for my husband who drives around, picking people up for work and also shovels sidewalks and salts the parking lot.  He barely slept on Monday night, because we were trying to figure out what/how much was going to happen and also because children kept inexplicably appearing in our room, which is actually pretty unusual for us.  Adulting is awesome.

All of that negativity aside, I will say that I am coming around on the kid side of snow days.  It is much less terrible than it used to be, and we are actually nearing fun and at some points, relaxing.  Everyone happily played outside two separate times, even though the temperature was barely in the teens.  (Arkansas say what?!?)  John had the foresight to buy sleds several weeks ago "just in case," and they were a huge hit!  And the big girls helped the twins a ton, which was just about the sweetest thing ever.

After round one of sledding and outdoor play, we moved on to the hot chocolate portion of the day.

Snow day aftermath is no joke.



The twins always want to pull out bikes, and who am I to stop them?  Especially with that smile.

John did get to come home for a bit for a little baseball and some Star Wars.

School was canceled for the girls the next day, which turned out well for us, because I hadn't realized they were supposed to do school work until getting onto Facebook late the first night. 😱 So, the second snow day allowed us to finish their snow day work and go see The Last Jedi in the theatre, because we blew through all the other Star Wars on Christmas break in preparation for Disney World.  We got to see all but the last five minutes when the fire alarm went off, and we were evacuated from the theatre.  I read later in the news that pipes had burst, which would explain the water pouring from the lobby as we left.

All in all, I feel more positively towards snow days than I ever have, though they aren't great for chicken selling.  I hope you are staying warm wherever you are, because it is still SO cold here!

{Snow Day 2017}
{Snow Day 2016}
{Snow Day 2015} - We had a LOT of snow that winter
{Snow Day 2012} - The year we lost power for 5 days starting on Christmas.