Winter is Baaaack

We woke up to 4 inches of fluff!

Snow crusted trees are the beauty that can only be found in winter.

Beauty... snow touched trees are amazing.

We made snow angels!

We sledded for 1.5 hours!

We got crafty and made a snow "S" for Sassy Spalding's!

We came in with pink cheeks and all kinds of energy after some hot chocolate.

Then we snuggled in and started to read our blog book!

It's been a truly beautiful day of enjoying the white stuff. 

The Sassy Spalding's loved every minute of their time outdoors. 

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I am so happy that I started this blog 3 years ago... this year I'm going to try very hard to update frequently if not daily. (The daily updates have been easy because I did not have school work... now that the school work has started again, it's getting harder and harder but I'm managing.)  

The http://sassyspaldings365.blogspot.com/ has kept me motivated to keep taking pictures of these little Sassy Spalding's every day. Now, after receiving the blog book today in the mail... that is even more motivation that I could have imagined. It's the coolest thing ever to read. There are more things that I forgot, but immediately remembered when I re-read them... it was moving watching Kailee and Gracie as I read to them my thoughts and feelings about them. There was a request that they each have their own book every time so they can always have them forever. So... now I will work on saving up some money to re-make another Sassy House of Spalding 2009-2011 blog book and for the years to come I will make 2 of every one that we complete. I secretly hope that every book is 200 pages long because it was the best 3 hours of reading that I have ever spent.

For the Love of School Children: LET IT SNOW!

The snow began at 3:22 p.m. at our house today.

By 3:25 p.m. the deck was covered.

4 p.m. it was still coming down really heavy!

By 4:15 p.m. the trees were covered.

By 5:00 p.m. the branches were coated even more.

6:30 p.m. the snow hasn't let up much... maybe 2 inches?

Still coming down at 7:00 p.m....

A little more by 7:30 p.m. but not as hard as it was as earlier.

The Sassy Spalding's were doing a "Snow Day" dance this evening. They decided it would be wonderful to have an extra "S" day! (I think they are right!) It would be nice to have a sleep in -- pj's all day -- no work -- play all day -- day! Did I mention there was a chant to go with the "Snow Day" dance?  Here are the lyrics to the "Snow Day" dance chant... "Snow, snow please stay! We need a really good snow day! Please blow the snow all over the road and make it so the snow plow cant go." I admire their brilliance! These little Sassy's went to bed with such hopeful, sweet, giddy smiles... oh let there be a snow day... that hope and giddiness almost makes me want to "create our own" snow day tomorrow.
If there is a snow day... or a created snow day... there will be an update tomorrow!

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Quick Update: There IS school (apparently 4" is not enough for Petoskey Schools to close)... dang it. The Sassy's believe that if they would have sang a little louder, danced a little harder and wished a little more that they would have had a snow day... I may agree... they also think I should have done the snow dance and chanted but I was far too busy writing down the words to chant or dance... so to that I disagree. Daddy would not allow us to have a "created snow day" either. Go figure. I tried the 'ole well, Concord Petoskey closed but he wouldn't have it. So off to school the Sassy's went in their snowpants, thick coats, hats, gloves, scarves, and boots. They were not overly "thrilled" but they didn't protest going either (because they both love school) . They did however try to talk me into bringing their sleds to school to use at lunch time. I will not fall for this... it was fine when I was working the noon-hour at school but it's unfair to leave my child's sledding safety to 3 adults who have to watch over 120 other children... so for now unless mommy goes back to work doing noon-hour the sleds will be safely tucked into our garage awaiting the Sassy Spalding's arrival after school.