According to everyone around here last winter brought an insane amount of snow. There were about 3 weeks worth of snow days last year at the girls’ school. After dealing with all that it was assumed that this year would be much the same. The school came up with an idea of doing snow packets where it had several days of work for the kids to do should there be numerous snow days in a row. However, up until yesterday there hasn’t been more than a couple of inches of snow each time it snowed. Then last night we got dumped on with about a foot of snow. The snow has stopped since early this morning, but we are supposed to get more this afternoon.

In anticipation of all this snow school was cancelled yesterday, but the snow didn’t actually begin until around 4-5 p.m. yesterday afternoon. I kept checking the website for school to be closed today, but they didn’t list our school until after 8 p.m. last night. I was looking forward to sleeping in a little this morning. However, the girls greeted us at 5:30 this morning. What in the world is wrong with these kids? On a usual school day we have to drag them out of bed at 6:15, but on days that they can sleep in they always get up earlier. Grrrr!!!

Annie was so excited to finally go through her snow packet, whereas Mimi had to practically be pinned down to do her work. Annie even had me print her off some more worksheets today because she got all her work done really early this morning. She is so not my kid! Mimi’s snow packet was completed yesterday, so I printed her off some worksheets as well. She was not pleased with me, but she’ll thank me later when she’s really good at counting forwards and backwards by 2′s (one of the worksheets had what seemed like a hundred of those practice sequences…haha). Annie is also figuring out how to do algebra thanks to her Math Dictionary she got from her book order last week. So Mike has been working with her on solving for x in simple equations. Again, as good as I was at math growing up, I NEVER asked to skip ahead in my studies or do extra work.

The girls promptly went over to the neighbor’s house to play, so I didn’t get any pictures of them out in the snow. But I took Violet out for a few minutes and snapped a couple pictures of her trudging through the snow.

We also watched Daddy using his tractor to plow all the snow. How have we survived this long without a tractor? Just think how quickly we could have plowed our 10×20 foot driveway in Wisconsin. Just two scoops, and it’s done!

The neighbor was out doing his portion of the property at the same time. He had some kind of huge snow blower attached to the back of his tractor. I’m amazed at all the attachments you can get for these tractors. Mike is planning on getting a log splitter attachment, and I’ve learned about so many different kinds since we’ve lived here. You can plant, pull, grind, dig, cut, till, rake, mow, split, scoop, blow, water, spray, sweep, chip, vacuum, cultivate, mix, backhoe, level, spread, and so much more as long as you’ve got the right attachment.

The snow-covered plant life looks so pretty. Can you believe that those are just weeds? Maybe I should just get some of that spray-on snow for the non-snowy months to cover our weeds with instead of having to deal with removing them.

Our tree strip full of snow.

The girls are going to have fun with this snow bank once it’s complete.

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