Snow!

The first flakes of snow began to fall, though I was sound asleep. It wasn't til I woke that I knew the snow had fallen and to make matter's worse, I had spring fever. My son was ecstatic as well as my husband, but me I thought, Man I just washed my car!

I rounded up the children and took them to school. Punched in for the day and hoped at some point the snow would ease up. But the flakes got bigger and the snow came faster. By noon, I wondered how I would get us home. With school already in session, they cannot cancel and that was okay. We were probably out of school the next day anyway. The kicker of it all, we just had a holiday and Inservice day. This was their first day back and most likely their only day back this week. As the day progressed, many students left with their parents, but my groups were still present so I continued to teach them.

Finally, school ended and the first thing out of my son's mouth: I can't wait to shovel the neighbors' driveways and make some money!
I laughed. No matter how much he shoveled, the snow never let up. He worked until the sun went down (about an hour and a half) and I too worked on our driveway.

In the morning, it was as if we hadn't shoveled at all. I dreaded going back out to shovel the driveway, wishing my husband were home to do it instead. My son however, was extremely happy to go talk to the neighbor across the street. If you are wondering why he didn't shovel our driveway, it's because he said I don't pay him enough! We worked on the driveways throughout the morning and then the snow came down hard again. My poor bubby was frustrated, but he knew the neighbor had paid him ten dollars and he was determined to continue to shovel. Feeling bad, I went over and helped a little.

That evening the snow finally let up. Yet the driveways were mostly finished, my son decided, enough was enough. His feet hurt as well as his arms. So we decided to make a snowman but the snow didn't stick well. We would have to wait until the sun melted it a little. I picked up some snow and threw it at him. He laughed and we continued to throw snowballs and play in the snow as the sun peeked out. It had been so long since we had a really good snow fall and I didn't want to waste it in case it would be years before another good one.

Though I was ready for spring, I made use of the snow, making sure as a family we took full advantage. We built the snowman, went sledding down the hill, had a snowball fight and made snow angels. When we came in each time, I made hot chocolate to thaw our frozen fingers and warm our bodies.