I love the snow. It's the Zero Degree Temperatures that accompanied this years snow that turned me off. The kids were super excited to finally get their snow gear out and have some fun in it though. Normally they would play outside in the snow for hours but with how cold and windy it is this week the kids only make it about 30 minutes before coming back indoors. Kase came inside today saying, "my face is burning, I think I have a frost bite!"
The kids have been begging me to take them sledding, but with them only being able to stand 15 minutes of the freezing temperatures, it seems like so much work to get everyone all bundled up and drive to a sledding hill when we will be turning right around and coming home after 2 times down the hill.
So I had an idea! Why not make a sledding run in our own backyard??
I piled snow on my deck and a small picnic table and Viola!! Who needs White Pass or Leavenworth when you have a mothers creative genius. (or as some might call it... laziness)
Alright, so the ride was short lived from the top to the bottom, but the kids got a kick out of it and it allowed for me to enjoy the festivities from the comfort of my cozy warm home.
The baby and I watched from indoors while the kids rotated from indoors to outdoors, thawing themselves out every 1/2 hour or so.
Hudson spent most of his time watching them out the window.
This is him saying,
"OUT... A-SIDE... SNOW"
(Repeated 9,364,729,894,157 times)
And this is Hudson saying,
MOM...HELP...STUCK
(Repeated another gazillion times)
Once this freezing, snowy couple of weeks is behind us, we will definitely need to replenish our supply of hot chocolate and marshmellows :)
1 comment:
so fun! we used to make a sledding hill off the deck in our old house. it worked marvelously (is that a word)!
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