Snow Days

We've had a lot of time off this winter due to snow.  Our last storm brought 10 inches of the white stuff,  so we were all home together for a good number of days.  It warmed up enough that we weren't housebound though, so we had fun together.

We've made a lot of snowstorm sugar cookies this year!

Valentine's came during the course of the storm.  Lots of love in this house.  

The kids pretended they were arctic explorers climbing mountains.  You'll be proud to know that Tess was the "first American woman" (her words, not mine) to scale several of these peaks.

Drew tried a solo expedition.

We've also had the Olympics to entertain us.  We've been letting Tess stay up late to watch a little, since she hasn't had school.  This is her tally of the different countries competing in the events.

She decided to join the games by creating her own ice skating rink.  She refused to try it out until the Olympics were on that night.

So we were out Thurs, Fri, the weekend, then President's Day on Monday.  And today was a 2-hr delay for Tess' school.  In total, she's been to school 4 out of the past 21 days.  Good thing she doesn't really learn much there anyway.  Good thing--right?