In early February, the high school office question of the day was, "How many snow days do you think we'll get this year?" My confident answer was zero.
I was wrong, sort of. Our first day off, though, was actually under terrible circumstances. As I was dozing in Mary's bed the night of February 13th, Nellie came in to tell me that there was an active shooter on the campus of MSU. I wasn't quite conscious enough to fully take that in, and was shocked when I woke up to a text that school was closed and started reading the awful news. I spent the day in prayer and keeping the kids close and hugging them an inordinate amount, but we did enjoy our time together.
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| We mostly stayed put, but we did walk to the park to fly kites! |
Then the very next week, we had two ice days! Not exactly what we were expecting, but we enjoyed an extra-long weekend (only one day of school with President's Day!) had a lot of fun slipping and sliding.
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I have pretty strong feelings about leaving "winter lights" up through the long, dark winter.
They looked so pretty on the icy tree! |
The kids successfully summoned a second ice day by screaming into the freezer...?
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| Mary got ice skates for Christmas and finally got to use them - to skate down the sidewalk! |
We did spend a LITTLE time indoors.
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| Playing office |
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| and Among Us "in real life" |
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| plus a little Jenga |
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| and the Battle of the Books preliminary battle was still on! |
