Yippee Ki Yay, It's a Snow Day!I am bummed out that Seth had to make the treacherous drive in to work. He has new time off now that the new year has started and I wanted him to dip in to it, but he is all responsible and grown-up like. Phooey!
But the kids are here! All of them. Hip, hip, hooray!
There has already been sleeping in, and painting, and playing airplane, which is just a fancy way to say that the kids are eating Cheezits and juice boxes on TV trays, while watching Max and Ruby.
I predict that there will be board games played, cookies baking, snowmen built, warm baths taken and hot chocolate consumed. I am so excited! I wish every day could be a SNOW DAY, only a warm and sunny, snow free one.
And for the moment I am not going to think about the snow piling up in the driveway, that will need shoveling.
Oh, and since I am here, do you think this is funny? Last night Seth went to check on the kids in bed. Alyssa was on the bottom bunk, where we left her at bed time. Alex was standing on the top bunk in his underwear. He had his pajama top on one blade of the ceiling fan, and pants on another blade. He was spinning the fan and watching his jammies take flight, in his Bumblebee undies. Of course I asked the only question I could think of. "Did you take a picture?" Seth, who is more practical than I am and doesn't think kids up at midnight are cute, explained that he did not take a picture, but rather, moved Alex to the bottom bunk. If it weren't for Seth, we would truly be living in chaos around here, no parenting to be found anywhere. But come on, back me up, that is kind of funny, right? I asked Alyssa about it this morning and she assured me that it was hilarious. Don't you wish I had a picture of it?
* Alright, Max and Ruby has ended and there is chaos aboard Flight 0107 so I must go. Thank you for flying Johnson Air and enjoy your stay in SNOWVILLE!
7 comments:
We're having an early out snow day too! (Only, it hasn't snowed yet. Go figure!)
You are such a fun mom! I wish I was more like you in that area. I just don't do well in chaos.. one of the things I want to work on. Abi rarely if ever paints because I hate the mess.
I read your posts about how excited you are to play and how funny things are to you that would probably make me cranky (when they really are funny!) and I want to be more like you!
Thanks Cheryl! I am not that great, but I appreciate your kind words.
I actually don't LOVE painting, but at least tempera paints wash up easily. And believe me, there are plenty of things that I don't laugh about...like kids stomping down the hall and waking Chloe up EVERYDAY, and kids flooding my bathroom during bath time EVERYDAY, and kids who are always starving except for at dinner time.
I think you are a fantastic mom. You are very creative, and you always make the cutest stuff for your girls. And I love all the fun traditions you do with your kids. I want to be more like you too, but I do not have the talents that you have.
Anyway, thanks...your comment made me blush, but it also made me smile.
Ok, I vote that Alex is really a funny little guy!!!! That's my vote on it, anyway. I wasn't up at midnight trying to get him to go back to sleep, and not break his neck falling off the top bunk while he reached for the fan. And I am jealous that you get a snow day. All the huge snowstorms our kids went to school in ... nope, not once that I remember did they ever call school off. We would listen carefully to the radio, but no such luck!
So glad you got to enjoy your day. Airplane sounds like a game that's right up my alley because it includes eating and watching t.v. Ha! I'd go aboard Flight 0107 any day.
'Twas not as fun aboard HawleyTran Flight 0107. Mimi and Violet were sick all day, but Violet was super fussy and needed to take Tylenol all day to keep her fever down. She's not as fussy today, but I still need to pump her with Tylenol. The girls did have a fun day though as they spent a good chunk of time outside with neighbors playing the snow. The neighbor girls had to meet Sadie, too.
Annie's at home sick today too with a cough and her asthma acting up. I kept Mimi home as well because her cough sounds so wretched. I figured her school would appreciate it if I kept that away. Another fun day:|
Definitely funny about Al, everything he does is funny! We are having a snow day here only we call them "sick" days and they are probably much more frequent.
I am loving that we can play board games with Luke now. He got Candyland for Christmas and he loves it. Every time we play, his goal is to get the "dirty peanut."
That is cute! There is something really amazing about watching stuff fly off the fan.
Sometimes our activity during the evenings is placing foam blocks (nice and soft) on the fans' blades. Then everyone takes a turn turning the fan on. After that, it is a mad dash to see who can catch a block before it hits the ground. OR, they have to pick a spot to sit, I turn it on, and we wait to see who might be the lucky person to get bopped in the head! :)
By the way, a picture would have been pretty hilarious. Especially, if you could get the sleeping sibling in!
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