Sleet Day!

Before getting back into "catch up" mode, how about something current? From TODAY (gasp!)!

We have had a most wonderful snow day. One of those days where things have gone as well as we really thought they might, with lots of fun had by everyone in the family. I guess we all really needed a mini-vacation from all our regular responsibilities and worries. Thanks Mother Nature for making that happen!

We finally got some wintry weather last night and ended up with about 2-4 inches of sleet. (Technically we started with some snow, then sleet, then a dessert course of freezing rain). It looked white, but wasn't soft, and was very slippery. Luckily, our trusty plastic sled works on just about any wintry surface and we made the most of the day off playing in the snow. Hayden in particular had a blast finding any inclined icy surface to sled down.

posing as the sleds are found...

the stairs - completely slick - hence the stomped-on sides near the rails!

trying to get situated in our first minutes out

our street this morning - perfect for slip sliding. MUSH DADDY!

the manhole in the street - you can see how we just have a covering of ICE, not snow.

M tries to give E a hand - she actually slid a little on our flat icy street!

More mush Daddy!

 We started out in our yard, then moved to the street, then the small hill up on the corner and THEN we discovered the sledding possibilities in the new development behind us. There was a spot where you could slide down one small hill, keep skidding, and then go down ANOTHER hill and glide a long time across the snow without fear of crashing into anything. As the kids said, "it was awesome!" The amount of giggling was also awesome!

One of our first sled turns - Blizz did her usual sled guarding

Even J took a turn, and Blizz supervised.

can you see the people way way back? That's where I took off from on the sled - you could slide SO far!

Molly and Eliza enjoyed "butt sledding"!

 

(video from our first sled hill )

When we weren't sledding, we found other fun things to do. We had pancakes for breakfast (perfect for International Pancake Day!), played family Uno, made puppy chow (Chex muddy buddies), and just generally had a nice relaxed quiet day. It wasn't perfect - the bread I was making the bread machine didn't work out so well, Molly had a pee accident IN her snowsuit, nap time took some extra encouraging - but generally we had a great day. And we get to do it again tomorrow! Roads are still icy and it's not going to warm up quick so schools are closed tomorrow. Hopefully we'll have another fun day.

snow man pancakes!

Yay for snow!