We made it through the much-anticipated snow and ice storm, losing power for only a few hours. The children very much enjoyed waking to a winter wonderland, then sledding and stomping around on the several inches of snow for three days.
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| "Where's my scarf, Mama?" |
Chris went out with them in the frigid cold a few times, and I preferred my job, which was to stay indoors and make hot cocoa for the returning adventurers.
When our power went out, we filled our time by doing a school day by the light from the windows (CCE having been cancelled), everybody drew pictures, Mary wrote a musical composition, and then she gathered her younger siblings under the covers in bed and read them Frog and Toad.
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| Music Theory classes paying off |
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| Margaret reading aloud to Thomas |
Joseph (3) never got to play in the snow because he caught a bad cough-turned-fever from John who was, by now, well enough to play outside. Thomas got sick too--his first illness--so I spent a lot of the weekend just sitting around snuggling miserable boys who could be comforted only by a mama's arms.
That snow-covered scarf says it all!
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