Ice Day 2013!

We knew it was coming...we hoped, we crossed our fingers, the kids did their homework for Friday so as not to jinx it, I grocery shopped for all the things you need to make hot cocoa, soup, cinnamon rolls, mac and cheese and popcorn, we dug out gloves and hats and scarves and a stack of long sleeve shirts and we started to get ready for bed on Thursday night...praying for an ice day!

We didn't even get our faces washed before KISD made the announcement that school was canceled for Friday - so we went back downstairs to watch a movie by the fire!

Snow days were exciting when I was little - even though I lived far away from other children and snow days usually meant a bunch of strangers in our home - since our home was also a motel!, but no school, a day in jammies, watching tv or listening to music or reading under a blanket and playing in the snow.  I remember spending as much time getting my snow clothes on as I could actually spend outside playing in it before I had to come in a warm up.  We threw my clothes in the dryer to dry and warm up and then I did it all over again.

Snow days when you live where it rarely snows are better - maybe because I'm the mom and there is nothing better than joy on your children's faces, but snow (or ice) days in Texas are rare and wonderful!  We don't get many and we alway have to make them up, we never have the right gear and more often than not our sleds are pieces of cardboard, but it really is magical!

Sophie was made to be a snow dog!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

yesterday the geraniums were in bloom, today, they are frozen solid

Peyton's first ever icicle

one for Peyton, one for mommy

take the trucks off your skateboard for an instant snowboard

Right now Peyton is making decorations on her makeshift rainbow loom and Keaton is off with the neighborhood boys sledding down the hill at Bluebonnet Elementary and I have started a big pot of loaded baked potato soup.  Mom is asleep by the fireplace and Patrick is sadly, at work.  All hope is for him to get to come home early - they let him go early last night and today is just as bad.  Then it's time for more hot cocoa with these silly, perfect, delightful snowman-shaped marshmallows that Patrick found, one more deep winter sleep and then a slow trip back into reality on Sunday to get ready for driving and errands and school and homework and no reason to not go out...but for tonight - we are iced in!