From another angle

See the camillia? and the cars? and the "tree" next the the cars?

The backyard ... table and chairs and play kitchen. There is as much snow above the table as it is high.


You can see a hint of the sunrise here:

Getting ready for Valentine's Day

Working on some Valentine's "cards" ... anything for these girls to do that is crafty is fun. They worked on these salt-dough hearts for at least 30 minutes without interruption. Wow.







Next step: Glitter. Ah! Have mercy on me, glitter.

Snowmageddon? Snowpocolypse?

Whatever you call it, we got a lot of snow. Over two feet. Tons and tons moved by these arms. Mountains to slip slide down. But worst of all ... it is taking down trees and bushes.

I was shoveling the stairs and thought to myself, oh, this is great, on the East side of the house there is room to put the snow without throwing it on plants. Wait?!!? Where is the camillia bush????

It was bent more than double. Our 10 foot tall tree was only about 4 feet high. I shook the snow off, and it rebounded about a foot. I don't know how well a camillia can manage after such trauma, but we may be researching new plants for next year.



Lots of snow. We played, shoveled, watched, threw. Had fun. No pictures, maybe tomorrow.

Happy Birthday wishes!

Did you think we forgot you???
Naw.

What, more snow?

A few inches, maybe 4? 5? on Wednesday. So the kids had no school.

Well, we got outside and played snow baseball (I hit the balls, they buried them).

Then the neighbors came over (ages 12, 12, and 13) and played with us for an hour and a half.









C5 Does a snow angel


C5 atruistically pulls her sister


And Q3 kicks the snow tube

Just pictures

Left over from the trip to the National Harbor. But I like them both.

snow again

It snowed last Saturday, causing a school delay Monday. It is snowing again today, which I anticipate will cause a delay at the very least in the morning. And it is set to snow again on Saturday.

SNOW!

As of last night, this would have delighted both children, as C5 was looking forward to the groundhog seeing its shadow so it would be scared and there would be 6 more weeks of winter. Q3 wanted the groundhog to see its shadow and go back to hibernation so the tiger wouldn't eat it (what?? I don't know! but we just roll with it). However, at school pick up today C5 had some different ideas ... she was upset because she didn't like the snow and cold and the legging and the days not being "choice" days (to wear leggings or not). Oh well.

So we let them wander around by themselves in the backyard, and here they are: