Today is a snow day and the local schools are closed. Ashton got to sleep in, which probably most teenagers love to do on a snow day. Ashton acts as if its a holiday! I loved snow days as a kid, but it seems as if we didn't have as many of them "back then". However since I have had children in school I've noticed the snow days seem to happen alot more often. If the school uses all of the alloted storm days, the students end up going longer at the end of the school year. It seems as if we went to school no matter what! As a child, when we did have a snow day, we would spend hours playing outside. There were snowmen to make, snow forts to construct and of course, sliding. I remember going to my grandparents farm and using the coveted flying saucer that was there, to slide down the huge (to a child)pile of snow that had been plowed up around the light pole in the yard. I always wanted a metal flying saucer of my own! My children had plastic versions of the saucer and would spend hours sliding down the piles of snow in the yard. My oldest would spend hours in the snow, I would have to beg him to come in and warm up. The above photo was taken probably when Courtney was around 13, Benjamin 6 and Ashton 1. I believe the boys had been taking turns pulling Ashton around the yard in the sled. Of course there were the obligatory snowball fights (and inevitably someone would end up crying) and the making of snow angels. At the end of playtime would come a mug of hot cocoa with marshmallows.Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Snow day
Today is a snow day and the local schools are closed. Ashton got to sleep in, which probably most teenagers love to do on a snow day. Ashton acts as if its a holiday! I loved snow days as a kid, but it seems as if we didn't have as many of them "back then". However since I have had children in school I've noticed the snow days seem to happen alot more often. If the school uses all of the alloted storm days, the students end up going longer at the end of the school year. It seems as if we went to school no matter what! As a child, when we did have a snow day, we would spend hours playing outside. There were snowmen to make, snow forts to construct and of course, sliding. I remember going to my grandparents farm and using the coveted flying saucer that was there, to slide down the huge (to a child)pile of snow that had been plowed up around the light pole in the yard. I always wanted a metal flying saucer of my own! My children had plastic versions of the saucer and would spend hours sliding down the piles of snow in the yard. My oldest would spend hours in the snow, I would have to beg him to come in and warm up. The above photo was taken probably when Courtney was around 13, Benjamin 6 and Ashton 1. I believe the boys had been taking turns pulling Ashton around the yard in the sled. Of course there were the obligatory snowball fights (and inevitably someone would end up crying) and the making of snow angels. At the end of playtime would come a mug of hot cocoa with marshmallows.
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We use to have to make up the snow days by going on Saturday (1/2 day but still Saturday!!) Courtney was the one to love the outside!! Especially, Uncle Robbie's go cart! LOL LOL LOL
Ah, the go-cart! Run Forest run!
i remember those metal flying saucers, Cheryl. I wonder what became of them????? Roberta and I sure had fun with them years ago. I'm glad you got to enjoy them, too.
If I remember correctly, it was hot cocoa with a mound of Fluff on top!
Our school district in Illinois almost never used their snowdays. I thought that was terrible because some days the snow was so awful that it made driving extremely treacherous. It was exhausting to have to shovel my way out in order to get to school and then find only a few of my students had shown up. Sheesh! No problems like that in Hawaii, I see.
I used to love to wake up to the sound of snowplows on the road outside our house - then I would dash to the radio to see if school was closed!! Shovelling, snow angels, drying mittens on the radiators...ah, those were the days!
Aunt Jean, I desperately wanted my very own flying saucer. Why, you and Aunt Roberta were just mere children when I was merrily sliding away! I also wanted to have a playhouse like the one at Grammy's.
You are right Ashton, most of the time it was marshmallow fluff! And Melissa, I can still smell the drying mittens on the radiators, and the plastic bags in our snowboots :)
A quick update...Ashton has been accepted at another college!! We will post more details later, once Ashton returns home from a weekend "up north". She is looking forward to skiing and snowshoeing one last time before possible surgery!
WOOHOOO ASHY ANNIE!!! So proud of you! By the way - loving the new enhancement to the blog! My favorite book!
Just the mention of mittens drying on radiators recreated that distinct smell in my memory.
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