Snow Day

Georgie slept late this morning-- (long sigh).  How relaxing.
Well, it could have been relaxing; except we had our first real snow of the season and you know what that means.


SNOW CLOTHES!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I HATE SNOW CLOTHES!!!!!!!!
A homeschooling mom is in a no win situation when it snows.  You can't say to your people, "When all your work is done you can go out and play."
All the snow might be melted by then and then you are the devil because you denied your people childhood memories of frolicking in the snow with their siblings.  Nope.  Carpe Diem!  You must seize not only the day, but the hour, and get into your snow clothes ASAP before the snow melts..  Then there's the hot chocolate, marshmallows to warm up afterwards.  School is NOT going to happen. 

And man-oh-man do we have a lot of snow clothes.  This picture was taken at 8:30 AM.
By 8:30 AM we had located:
5 pairs of gloves
5 hats
5 coats
4 pairs of snow boots (Elinor outgrew hers)
4 pairs of snow pants (The Man Child outgrew his)

The dreaded snow bucket.  Curse you!

My people had big plans for the 4 inches of snow.  A snow fort was priority number 1.  It is hard to build a snow fort with 4 inches of snow, but somethings you have to learn by experience.

Do you remember Boxer from Animal Farm?  He was the horse that worked and worked and worked.  He basically worked himself to death and then got sent off to the glue factory.
Clark was Boxer today.

Only Boxer wasn't so happy when Snowball wasn't pulling her weight shoveling snow.

And Faith just was amazed that snow was so edible.  "It tastes like white fluffy snow!"
Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what it would taste like.

Boxer did eventually run out of steam and found a supervisory role more to his liking.
This is where the snow pants would have been really useful.  Jeans don't stand much of a chance when you sit down in the snow.