Snow/Ice Week 2015

Dusty and the kids' school was closed Monday because of the snow/ice that was supposed to move in Sunday during the night. My teacher workday was delayed until 10 that day, and then they told us at lunch that we HAD to be out of the building by 1:00.

My school was cancelled Tuesday. Dusty and the kids' school was delayed Tuesday. Everyone's school was closed Wednesday. We all went Thursday, and everyone was out again today! 

Needless to say, our week has been crazy, unpredictable, and full of nice, relaxing, unexpected days at home! 

Bennett has done his share of napping. I even managed a nap today...with Bennett on my left arm and Avery Claire tapping me on my right arm several times, asking questions. But I felt rested afterwards, so it counted. 

Avery Claire has found a new favorite show on Netflix - Horrid Henry. We try to limit iPad time, but she has literally watched it for hours today. {Sidenote: we did make her put socks on. She is one of the most hot-natured people I know. I've only seen her cold maybe twice in her life}.

She's had high hopes for snow ice cream this week. We managed to catch a very small amount of snow today, and we attempted it. It wasn't very good!

She let Bennett watch her play an alphabet game. She explained it to him as she played. 

In case you've never heard, every Lowe's has a "Build and Grow" program. They offer classes for kids to come build something on certain Saturday mornings. You can also buy their "Build and Grow" kits in the store. Dusty pulled one out today to build. I think he likes them just as much {or more} than Avery Claire.

Things weren't so bad early today, then the snow and ice moved back in. Dusty and our neighbor, Brandon, went to get pizza and had to come back home for a chain to pull a man out who lost control of his car, slid off the road, and hit a pole. 

Right now, our driveway and our street are solid sheets of ice. We've heard rumors that it's going to warm up some this weekend. Let's hope they're right. 

The kids are asleep, the floors are clean, most of the clothes are washed. And Dusty and I are about to watch Alaskan Bush People. He always watches it; we watched a marathon today. It's like a train wreck I can't look away from. Dusty keeps joking that we're gonna go live in the Alaskan bush this summer. Those people are roughing in the truest sense of the word. They enjoy NONE of the conveniences of the modern world. As Avery Claire said, "they have no medicine on the mountain." And you should've seen them when they had a chance to eat pizza.