Snow Day!

Another snow day. This time we have a significant amount of snow. It snowed all day yesterday and most of the night. We ended up losing power at 11:00pm. Luckily all the children were asleep in their beds. It came back on at 3:00 something then went back out. I was able to keep our fire going all night which was great because without it we would have been very cold! I was so thankful that we had it. We only use the stove when it gets really cold as the monitor heat does not do the job of heating this house as well as the wood stove does. Needless to say I LOVE OUR WOOD STOVE! I am such a cold natured person that I constantly feel cold with our other heat source. With the stove I fell all warm and cozy and do not mind the snow as much. It's a wonder what heat will do for you! I was also glad because with my 2yr old being so sick she did not need to be without heat. We did make some yummy cookies. They are molasses and the favorite thing to do is to lick off the sugar. The house sure smelled good! I found the recipe here: http://www.4boys2luv.blogspot.com/. This is my sister's blog so I am a bit partial to it. She is right in that they did remind me of mom's cookies when we were little. Today we are baking bread so that should be fun. I am thinking that with this much snow they will not have school tomorrow either. The good news is that this weekend it is going to be in the 70's! Whoo hoo! What better way to celebrate the time change than with spring like weather! Unfortunately, my luvs will have school again this Sat. to make up for the snow day. Good thing it is only for 4 hours. That afternoon my oldest has a fashion show to do as a fund raiser for the class trip. I am looking forward to it. Her favorite item that she will be modeling a prom dress that a local dress store donated for the event. I will take pictures. Speaking of pictures, here are some of the cookies we made and our snow.

I had help sprinkling the conf. sugar on them. Actually my 5yr old did the sprinkling. :)

What you cannot is all the birds in the tree. I took this picture because this tree had about 20 robins in it. I cannot see these birds without thinking about the time last summer when we were coming back from swimming and I noticed a large robin in the field. "Hey guy's, look at that fat robin." I said to my kids. My five year old looked around and said, "Where's the fat robber?". We all busted out laughing. It still makes us laugh thinking about it.