Ice with snow!

It happened once again.  Another dose of some snow and along with it came tons of ice.  Another 'no school' day was written in my personal calendar.  The kids were home yesterday, again, from school because the weather was frightful outside.  The snow we got Monday night is still covering the ground.  Then on Tuesday night we got another few inches along with ice. 

The kids smile when they hear a "two hour delay" from school but it quickly goes to a frown when we get the second call saying "no school".  It's crazy really!  This is only February 6th and we have had six days off of school because of the weather so far.  I am trying to really be upbeat about it all though because there is really nothing we can do about it.  God is blessing us with lots of cold, snow and winter here in the East.  As much as I try to keep a smile on my face about the weather, yesterday was a challenge.  I was feeling house bond.  The kids being home again was fine but we keep remembering that we will have to make these missed days of school up sometime and we wish not to in the Spring!

The kids made the best of their day at home!  Matthew loves the snow and always adventures out into it.  Hadassah eventually follows.  Ashlyn is in the cold fun for only a few minutes.  Take a look!

Giving her a ride on his snow board.

The icy trees.

They did this over and over again! 

Hadassah taking a ride!

Cold and fun!

He really does a good job at this boarding thing!

Beautiful!

On these 'no school' days, we stay in our pj's and have terrible hair do's all day.

Trying the runner sled.

We babysat Hunter awhile in the afternoon and so he got a quick ride too!!!

So cute!!!

Waving to Hunter as he goes back home with his momma.

 Loving the fun but ready to come inside.

While they were snow boarding outside, I was inside baking waffle whoopies.  They went great for a snack after our TAT Meeting here last night!  Yum!

Today the kids did have school after a two hour delay.  We are grateful for the electric that we do have because so many around us are out.  We are grateful for warm/hot water!  We have a warm home!  We have food!  We have health!  We also have snow and the ice here at our house did melt a bit!  It's winter ... it's cold!