This past Wednesday we had a snow day, ok, not officially but I called it...sometimes "it's good to be the king!". Truth be told, we were all tired and needed a sleep in and quite frankly I didn't see the point in spending an hour to make what is usually a 20 minute drive to daycare/school. So we all slept in and hung out in our jammies until around 11:00AM when Ciera said "can we go tobogganing?". The roads had now been plowed so what the heck, we piled on all our outdoor gear, I packed the kids into the car, added in our toboggan and the little sled for Tienna, then I shoveled out the end of the driveway from the plow and off we went to our favorite hill.
Tienna fell asleep on the way there (10 minute drive!) so that worked in our favour, as when we got there I told Ciera to be quiet getting out of the car, got our toboggan out, locked the car and voila we were at the top of the hill. The parking is right at the top of the hill so I could always see the car from where we were.
The plus side to being there at 11:30AM on a school day is there is hardly anyone there and with 6 inches of fresh snow it was great!! Ciera and I did several runs (I'd go to the car every few runs to see if Tienna was awake) and then we'd go again. My caveat this year was I told Ciera she now has to walk up the hill, no free rides up anymore :-).
Tienna fell asleep on the way there (10 minute drive!) so that worked in our favour, as when we got there I told Ciera to be quiet getting out of the car, got our toboggan out, locked the car and voila we were at the top of the hill. The parking is right at the top of the hill so I could always see the car from where we were.
The plus side to being there at 11:30AM on a school day is there is hardly anyone there and with 6 inches of fresh snow it was great!! Ciera and I did several runs (I'd go to the car every few runs to see if Tienna was awake) and then we'd go again. My caveat this year was I told Ciera she now has to walk up the hill, no free rides up anymore :-).
We had an absolute blast, swooshing down the hill, laughing ourselves silly, snow blowing up onto us, falling off at the bottom!! Ciera made snow angels,we threw snow at each other. Ciera kept saying "I want to go by myself" but I wanted to go too!!! I did relent and let her do some runs on her own, it took her forever to get back up to the top though.
Finally Tienna woke up so I put her in the baby-boggan and pulled her down the milder slope, she loved it, Ciera would start out beside her and then we'd go one way and Ciera would continue down the hill. Ciera wanted her and Tienna to go down but I had to nix that one.
All in all we were out for about 2 1/2 hours and we had so many laughs and so much fun, I think we all needed that day together......no where to go, nothing to do but just laugh and have fun, bonding for all of us.
On the way home Ciera asked "what day is it today again?", I told her "Wednesday", she replied "can I stay home every Wednesday?"....hmm no I don't think EVERY Wednesday but we'll do it again.
At ballet that night she told everyone "Guess what I did today? I went tobogganing"....apparently she told everyone at daycare too. She totally ratted me out!!
Ah well....it's only kindergarten and I think right now working on being a family is pretty necessary and she will catch up fine on her school work.
P.S. Yes I know I still need to do some catchup updates...I'm workin' on it!!
2 comments:
Are you sure there is a baby hidden in that snowsuit? What a fun Mom!
Now that's snow!!! Way more than our less than 12 hours of snow.
What a smart mom to know when everyone needed a break from routine to spend some quality family time. Looks like you are all settling into your new normal!
Enjoy them while you can,
Lou Ann & Lexie too
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