Thankful Thursday

I'm thankful tonight for the many, many foot prints in my backyard. I have always loved the smooth cleanness of newly-fallen snow. Now I'm finding that I love messy tracks (and the little feet that made them) even more.

Father Ducks

You always hear about the Mother Duck... Here's a picture of Matt and the dad across the street leading the neighborhood brood down to the park for some sledding today. There's a total of five kids there! The Mama Ducks were home with the babies this year, but next year, there'll be seven kids in the line-up!



The report was that the sledding was OK. It's VERY cold and the floofy snow was sort of hard to plow through. We're loving it, though. Doesn't it look beautiful?

Matt's school had an early release today as the snow didn't arrive until after the buses ran in the morning. Maybe tomorrow will be the snow day.

Fun Day!

Matt's school had a 2-hour delay this morning. We started our day on time, but then took a long break this afternoon to do a little of this...

...and this.

Snowy smiles all around!

Bushel and A Peck

Some of our neighbors have a blog called "Bushel and a Peck" which I'm going to add to my sidebar blogroll. We're thankful for them for many reasons, one of which, is that they seem to be our partners in home repair. The tools and ideas seem to fly regularly between our two "vintage" homes. Just tonight they came to the rescue again with some salt so that we could get our van up our (very slight) incline and into the garage.

Our big snowstorm never materialized over the weekend. We only ended up with a little ice. However, it's been snow showering pretty steadily since about 3:00, so we're getting some fresh white today. Maybe enough for a delay? It certainly made the driveway slick! Better late than never, I guess.

At Last!

Aaaahhhh...at last...some sledding snow!

Snow Day!

What a surprise! As a weather watcher (especially in the winter), I have never, ever been surprised by a snow day. I can see 'em comin', and I eagerly anticipate. Today just blew me away, though! I had given up hope to the point of not even watching the weather anymore and, lo and behold, we got a few perfectly-timed inches. So...I guess it can happen whether or not I'm watching for it...I'm not as powerful as I thought.

We had been holding onto a Bob Evans gift card for just such an occasion, so we all went out to breakfast, then spent the rest of the day playing (in various ways). It was snowing and blowing for most of the day, so Matt and Joe were the only ones hearty enough to spend any time outside. I think Ellie was probably the happiest in the whole family to have Joe around to play with all day. I love how much they love each other!

All the playing must have distracted Erin because when I went in to get her up from her nap, I found that she hadn't slept at all. I told her I wasn't happy about that, and she promised me that she would sleep tomorrow. When we came downstairs, Matt asked her if she had slept. She folded her hands and calmly said, "I don't think I can tell you that right now." She is just so funny to me!