Snow Day

Well yesterday ended up being a snow day for the kids, again. Wednesday night leaving work I had to scrape all the windows as the rain had turned to freezing rain and then sleet. Actually as I scraped my windows the sleet was coming down. I have to say I am thankful for this little car of ours. It warms up so fast and the defroster gets an A+ from me. I got my windows scraped off as much as I could before freezing to death. Since work is only about 5 minutes away from home I didn't worry about not having use of the windshield wipers since they were frozen. As I started out from work it was lightly sleeting and barely sticking to the ground. Bu the time I turned onto the street leading into our neighborhood the sleet was coming down heavy and fast. As I got out of the car at home the ground now had a coating of little ice pellets. It was a little slick going from the car to the house. I knew at that time that school would be canceled.
When I got into the house Mike happened to have the news on and I caught it just in time to see the letter H's scrolling across the board. Our school wasn't listed. Kaylee happened to be asleep in my bed so in the time it took me to walk her upstairs and back to my room they had added our district. Knowing I wouldn't have a 5:30 am wakeup call I decided to stay up for a bit and watch the weather change. Oh boy it changed and quickly at that.
I got home a few minutes after 10 and by 10:30 the ground was white with sleet. By 11pm it was snowing, big fluffy flakes at that. Around midnight when I looked out we had about an inch and a half. At 1 am we had at least 3.5 inches. When we woke up yesterday morning it was a winter wonderland! We had approximately  4 to 5 inches. It was amazing. Around 10 am I took the twins out to play and it was nice. The sun was shining and it felt so warm out even though it was only about 30 degrees. We hurried to build a snowman. He was cute. But he quickly melted. I decided to take the kids to lunch at burger king so the twins could play on the playground. We ate and played and then headed home.
I think we really enjoyed our snow day together. Today starts spring break when the kids get out of school. And I will have a few days off with the kids.  I am happy we didn't plan a camping trip this year. We wanted to but it didn't work out. So considering the weather we have had we probably would have been miserable. Maybe next year or sometime into the summer.