The title of this post pretty much sums up the month of January. After a fairly dry and mild December, this past month as brought quite a bit of snow and cold. Of course it's hard to compare it to the NY winters we dealt with but still it has been an inconvenience at times. Today is snow day #5 the kids have had out of school (the past 3 all in a row). The first snow days managed to fall around the weekend so fortunately they did not have to miss much school because of it. However the Blizzard of 2011 has had them out every day this week so far. We really haven't gotten much snow out of this storm, 4-6 inches give or take a little. Monday they were out of school due to freezing rain and drizzle that fell most of the day. Thankfully despite coming down most of the day we didn't get much ice accumulation. Tuesday brought on the snow, but not as much as originally expected. School was cancelled primarily due to the strong winds and cold temperatures. The winds are why it is hard to know just how much snow we really got. Today they are out of school again simply because of the frigid temperatures. I think the high today is around 9 and the wind chill isn't supposed to get above 0. I have no idea if they will go tomorrow or not, but I sure hope so. Granted Andrew has had a blast playing with our neighbors (we all have actually considering post was closed yesterday so Adam was off work too),but it is time to get back to a normal routine. I am ready for some quiet around this house, not to mention it is hard to find the motivation to do my own homework when everyone is out of school. Speaking of homework I should probably stop playing around online and get some of it done. Here are a few pictures from our first snow day a few weeks ago. We went to a hill just down the street to go sledding with our neighbors.
All bundled up and not sure about the cold
Andrew and Matthew making snowballs
Abominable snow baby
Adam and Andrew sledding
Andrew trying to pull Adam
Sweet kids, but Ava was done with the cold at this point
