the REAL snow day

We had the perfect snow day yesterday.


Really.  Perfect.


Well, other than that Jeremy had to get up at 5:30 to go to work in Silverdale (1/2 hour drive in good weather) to clear snow at the center his boss maintains.  This was GOOD because I've lost 11 hours of work this week, and he got 4 hours yesterday, and at least another 3 this morning as well.  Anyway. I stayed in bed until around 6:30 or 7 when Shea woke up.  I let him snuggle up on the couch with a blanket and I cleaned the kitchen and made us breakfast.  Definitely a pancake day!  We had pancakes, scrambled eggs, and yogurt, which is a pretty normal breakfast for us anyway.  My boss closed the ice cream stores, so I didn't even have to worry about trying to decide if I should try and drive in this stuff (I don't think I would have anyway), and I got to cleaning the house.  Something about a snow day makes me want a clean and cozy house.  Dishes, vacuuming, and general tidying up happened.  I've even been really good about making our bed and keeping our bedroom clean the last week, too.  Still need to get to that today and do laundry.


Around 9:30, Tawny came over and asked if I could watch the kids while she and Tim ran up to a neighbors house to take care of their animals.  So John and Shea played, Cor played on the Wii, and Katie and I made paper snowflakes.  She loves crafty things.  When I suggested making the snowflakes she said, "yeah, I've just been so busy lately I haven't had time to practice my paper snowflakes" (this is a homeschooled 8 year old, mind you. Busy? haha, love it.).  I secretly just wanted to make them myself though.  Shea decorated one.  I hung them in our glass sliding door.  Oh and don't ask me why I took a picture of my vitamins and lemon water.  Just did.  And that sideways picture of those cookies is THIS no bake recipe (only I added butterscotch chips and coconut)

After Shea's nap, we went outside and played in the snow with the cousins.  Jeremy and Katie were out there really late working on this crazy snowfort.  I'll have to take a picture of it when I go out later.  It is bigger than me with a roof.  crazy.  And Shea went sledding for the first time!  He loved, loved, LOVED the snow.  And if my feet had not been freezing because I don't have snowboots and I was only wearing rainboots with several socks on, we would've stayed out longer.

After we played and played, I came home and grabbed some food and went over to Tawny's house to make dinner together.  I baked some homemade french bread (turned out awesome!  I used my bread machine for the dough, and then rolled it out, let it rise, and baked.  YUM.).  And then we pooled together the last of our raviolis and had pasta, bread, and salad for dinner.  So easy and yummy, and nice to have dinner with another family when snowed in!  The kids played and we stayed and watched them for a bit while Tim and Tawny ran up to the neighbor's to feed the animals again.  Nice ending to the day!  We came home around 8:30 and ALL of us went to bed.  I was so tiired.  Something about playing out in the snow does that to you!

Oh, and I finished the coveralls (almost).  Need a couple more buttons (hence the pin on the green side tab), but don't have any that match.  I'm seeing if a mom from my group will let me try it on her 1 year old to make sure the fit is ok.  Definitely need better day-light pictures too before I can post them on the store.  

And just for fun, here is Shea sledding (forgive my horrible video taking skills)!  Happy for the flip-cam I got for Christmas :)

Still tons of snow out there today!  Hoping it will warm up enough that I can get to work at 4 today.