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Snow Day # 8

We started the day with just a late start, but by 7:45 the high school was calling with the news that school has been cancelled. This is starting to get really old. I called my Hubby to tell him and then the girls begged for rides to school. Today's plan was to straighten up the Living Room and my scrapbooking stuff. I am working on that. I have the LR cleaned up except for my scrapbooking stuff. I have been sorting all of my papers. Looking for a good way to store them, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I have almost all of my papers sorted and have found a few older pictures of the girls to put into a mini-book that I did last year for Mother's day but have never put pictures in, and I also found a few extra pictures of Sarah for a mini book that I am making for her for confirmation. If we get to many more snow days, the entire main part of my house (minus the girls rooms) will be clean and decluttered. Yeah. Of course that means I have to start on the basement.

The new Iowa Theme Song

It's winter in Iowa & the gentle breezes blow,
70 miles an hour at 25 below.
Oh, how I love Iowa when the snow's up to your butt,
You take a breath of winter & your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful, so I guess I'll hang around,
I never could leave Iowa cause I'm frozen to the ground!

How I spent a snow day or two

Yesterday the phone rang at 5:15 to tell me that we were going to have yet another day off from school. At this rate I will be teaching until July. Anyway, once again we couldn't get the phone in the bedroom answered so I decided that I was going to rearrange the room so that I could reach the bedroom phone. To do this meant moving the bed, too heavy for one, purchasing a new longer cord for the phone and of course as long as I was going to move, I might as well give the room a good cleaning. In the corner and behind the bed, I found all kinds of nasty stuff including some chocolate that was at least a year old, and a good 1/2 inch of dust. So needless to say, I spent the day cleaning, going through things and throwing stuff away. I would have liked to have thrown more away, but it is Kurt's and I don't want to touch his stuff. In the process of cleaning the room, I ended up cleaning out a junk drawer looking for a new phone cord. I found the cord, but it was to short so a trip to Office Max was needed. I also found a big box of pictures and things that I wanted to scrap. I must have thrown things into the box when I was trying to do an emergency clean and forgot about it. So I also cleaned out that box. Wow, I totally love our room now and am hoping that we can keep it this way. I also love the bed with all of the different animals, I collect turtles and don't have any other place to put my stuffed turtles,I guess I need to work on that. My favorite animal on the bed however is Sox's. She watched the entire time I was cleaning and as soon as the bed was made, she jumped up and has made herself at home. She even had a discussion with Kurt last night as to who got to sleep on that side of the bed. Since she wasn't there when the alarm went off this morning, I think Kurt won that discussion. She wasted no time getting back on the bed once he got up, and has been there for most of today, so I have a feeling this war hasn't ended yet. I must admit it feels good to clean things out and get some junk decluttered.

Snow Day Part 4

Okay this is the earliest I have gotten the phone call. 3:50 pm for the next day. We have already been cancelled for tomorrow. May 30th will now be my last day. Anymore snow days and we will go into June. We were supposed to be done before Memorial Day. That is now just a dream.
By the way the pictures above were taken at 3:30 pm. We have gotten over 7 inches in 6 1/2 hours. Not good.

More Snow day pictures

The first picture was taken at 9:00 this morning, the second at 10:30 and the third at 2:00 this afternoon, and yes it is still coming down.

Snow Day part 2

Okay it has gotten so bad that the school district came to the rescue. Our neighbor works for Plant Services for the district and Kurt of course is located at the administration building. Well our neighbor got stuck and the maintenance guys came to help her out. They came back later with a snow blower and dropped it off. Now everyone is out trying to remove the first several inches. What a crazy weather day.

Finally its a Snow Day

After having an ice day, a fog day and for my school system, another ice day, we finally have a snow day. The phone call came at 5:05 this morning. That is the earliest I have ever been called. We are getting more snow than we have seen for ever. At 9:00 I went out and measured, we had 7 1/2 inches, at 10:30 we had 9 inches. Kurt just called and they are sending him home at 12:00. What are rare treat, all of us home from noon on. Church has even been cancelled for tonight and that is very rare. More pictures later of what a productive day I have had.

Yesterday's Ice Storm

Dad's favorite way to spend a day off

I couldn't resist taking this picture. He looked so relaxed and peaceful.

How do you spend a day off

After lunch today we put in some Christmas movies and the girls had a blast playing with items from the Family night basket while I worked on a little scrapbooking. We then had a light supper and a rousing game of UNO. We played 4 rounds. Kurt won once, I won once, and Sarah won once. The final round ended in a draw. We used up the cards in the draw pile 5 times. We finally called the game so that Kristen could get to bed. The pictures are of everyone playing today or whatever we choose to do for the day. Kurt and I were trying to remember, but we believe that this may be the first time in a couple of years, where no one has left home at all during the day. All in all, I think that this was a great way to have a relaxing and non stress ful day during a very busy season.

Snow er I mean Ice Day

Today was a rare day. No one had to go to school do to the ice, even Kurt got to stay home and that is a rarity. The girls and I spent the morning making Christmas Cookies. Yummy, I guess Santa will have plenty of cookies this year at our house (if the Cookie Monster doesn't eat them first) Normally I am lucky to get one batch of cookies done by Christmas so that there are some to put out for Santa. Today we made Andes Mint cookies, Spritz cookies, and Pecan Tassies. Since we are done by lunch now we get to play this afternoon. In October I won a family game basket in a silent auction. I have been saving this for the first snow day, so this afternoon, we are planning on a mean game of UNO and putting together a Star Wars puzzle.