Snow!!!! Or Snow ?$#*!

Looks like we're getting enough snow for school to be cancelled tomorrow. Can't decide if that will make for a fun day or a looong day. Last snowfall I outsourced snowman making to my mom who was visiting.

Here's what she built with the four-year-old:

And here's what she and the six-year-old made:

Please do not ask why my kid is out in the freezing cold without a coat in the next photo. But do feel free to ask, "what exactly is she doing in that photo?" Because that question I can answer - she's dancing! With the snowman!

PS The little snowman is for the baby. He didn't get any further then a trip to the porch while the rest of us were having snow fun.

 

 

My favorite part of the day

Kay and "Kluckers" tucked
in for the night.

Most nights, I am completely annoying to my kids at bedtime and ask them all sing-song in my best approximation of 1950s mother-ness, "And what was your favorite part of the day today, dear?"

Every once in a while the kids give me a genuine response, but more often then not they answer with something deep and illuminating like "eating poopy for dinner," or "hugging the baby too hard 'till you yelled at me to stop that immediately."


Still, mothering is nothing if not staying the course even when it seems utterly pointless, so as I sat relaxing on the sofa tonight I said, "Daddy's going to put you to bed tonight, but before he does, I just wanted to know... what was your favorite part of the day today, dear?"

And Kay says to me just as sweet as can be, "Oh Mommy, my favorite part of the day was the part when you put me to bed."

Nicely done, Kay. I hope it was.