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Snow days...

My kids have lucked out this week.  Monday they were off for MLK Day, Wednesdsay for the expected storm (that only began after school would have ended), today for snow, they've already called tomorrow for anticipated snow, and they have next Monday and Tuesday off for teacher work days.  If only one could predict these things and plan a vacation.  It wasn't quite how we expected to spend the week, but I'm enjoying the extra down time.  Rather than schlepping kids, we're hanging out together.  Plenty of time for great art projects (votive candleholders made with baby food jars covered with tissue paper and glue, we built a boat from a kit that really floats in the tub), writing stories (a definite future classic called Mr. Hotdog will, I'm sure, find it's way onto best seller lists), watching movies while eating popcorn, using the video camera to make our own "commercials" (for running shoes and bubble bath) and of course, playing in the snow.  My favorite bit so far was taking food-coloring-dyed water and dripping it over the snow to create our "rainbow house."  I don't have my sermon written for Sunday, but I'll take the trade off.

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  1. Kathryn ConewayMarch 7, 2011 at 9:07 AM

    Sounds like a lovely snow day - I saw a quote once that said, "Snow is God's way of telling us to slow down, rest, and take it easy for a day."

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