What is a Snow Day?

Snow day???  What is that?  I wasn't sure when we moved here if my kids would even see snow regularly and that kind of made me sad.  Obviously, I had nothing to be sad about!  We've had snow every winter we've lived here so far, and now that we're in school, I realize just how much that snow impacts this area!  We now have ELEVEN snow days to make up.  ELEVEN!!

So, what do we do on our snow days?  Well, let's see...this past week, we had three.  So, from Sunday-Wednesday, we didn't leave the house.  I literally would go from my pajamas in the morning to workout clothes to the shower to yoga pants to pajamas....and it repeated itself for four days!  With the kids taking turns being sick, we didn't get out to play in the snow this time; just took advantage of play time, movies, snuggles, and hot cocoa.  And I finally got my camera out for the first time in ages, and captured these cuties.

Gavin rotated through Legos, Star Wars, and Angry Birds.

Riley's new favorite thing to do is flip the ottomans over so they're all over the living room and then stand on them to jump to the couch, or like these pictures, to pretend they're her stage.

 The kids pulled all their instruments out to do some performing together as the Great Pate Band.  Gavin said Riley is the singer and he plays the instruments but Riley felt she could easily do both!

 I also attempted to clean out the craft closet.  I thought I was a genius mom....popped popcorn at 8:30am and let the kids pick out movies for a movie marathon!  Surely that would keep them entertained, right?

Within five minutes, Riley was in the toy room with me taking things out of the closet as I was trying to organize them.  Needless to say, the craft closet did NOT get cleaned out that morning.

So....we've now lost pretty much all of our May break.  Kind of sucks because the advantage to year round school was all the breaks....and now he'll go from the end of March til the end of June without any breaks.  Not only that, but they're mentioning Saturday school may be an option if we have more snow days.  Luckily, we're supposed to get more snow this week and it's an off week for us.  So...we won't have to make up any snow days that occur this week for the rest of the district.  Fingers crossed we don't have any more this winter....I think I speak for MANY people when I saw we're ready for spring!