Snow days

We left the house today!!  Woo-Hoo!!

We took a little drive through Stewardson to see the piles of snow taller than the truck and to go see Eli and Crewe for a change of pace.  We let the boys spend a few minutes out in the snow because the drifts are too impressive not to at least march across them!  The most impressive drifts are between our home and Aunt Helen's...they are easily taller than Brody's 45 inches and are quite solid, making traversing across them quite easy.   

We were fortunate to never lose power through the whole storm.  We did have a couple pipes freeze, but we caught them in time to thaw them out before they busted.  The back porch, which houses the laundry, was only 20 degrees this morning.  Not cool, my friends.  A couple heaters warmed it up in no time and now Kurt has a project...properly heat the laundry space!  Ten years in this beast of a house has never had us experiencing frozen pipes or an temperature drop on the porch

We emerge from this storm with a freshly organized first floor, a home that has been stripped of it's Christmas glory, drawers full of clean clothes and lots of art created by our in house artists.  We also taught Brody how to play UNO and dominoes.  Riley informed us our games were too boring for him!

Tomorrow marks the 3rd day of school being cancelled, but I think daycare will be open so back to reality.  Which means Brody is going to have to wear something besides pajamas and Riley will only get to get dressed once tomorrow!