The Happy Homeschool Mom: Snow Day!!

I grew up in Western New York. Snow was NOT something very exciting there. I can remember having snow on Halloween and still having it past Easter. Very cold temperatures, lots of snow, wind, shoveling, and dressing in layers was just part of life there. Snow didn't stop anyone or anything unless it was extreme blizzard like conditions.

It has been more than 15 years since we lived in New York and I do not miss the snow at all. I will take the heat of Arkansas summers any day. The children however, think snow is wonderful. Every year they worry and wonder if they will get to play out in the snow. Usually we get one good snow every year. We have had several possibilities of snow this year that have all fizzled out or gone around us. Earlier this week they predicted snow and ice. We got the sleet but hardly any snow. When the forecast showed snow for us today, we were doubtful it would actually happen, especially when it started this morning as sleet again. But, around 9 am the sleet started turning into fluffy white snow flakes. The children were so excited!

Since it is such a novelty we did cancel school and had a snow day. The children and the dog spent most of the day outside making snow angels, sledding, and building snow men. When they came in to warm up I threw their stuff in the dryer so they would be dry to put on again. It snowed until after 4 o clock and when I measured around 3 we had 3.5 inches of snow.