Snow Snow Where Did You Go?

I can't believe it's already almost mid-February. Since my last post we've been in winter at full tilt! Carter came down with a stomach bug the night of my last post (1/1/09). He was ill for 5 days. He finally kicked it and we started to settle back into our normal routine when snow hit and it hit hard! We had two of the worst snow storms that I can remember. 

It began with one of the coldest weather in 12 years that took us into the single digits. It was miserably cold.  When snow hit we had about 2 inches of snow followed by one inch of sleet that turned to ice and then another five inches of snow on top.  The kids were off school for 4 days the last week in January. We were all stir crazy and bored by the end.  

It wasn't great snow for building snowmen, so no great photos. We did go sled riding that weekend and it was great! We went to Sharon Woods and we were the second fastest ones on the hill. The fastest was a LL Bean Tobaggon (we must get one of these! it was amazing!!). All of us had a fantastic time despite the bitter cold.

This past week Athena went on a field trip to the Aquarium on Tuesday morning. By the time she arrived back at school, the next snow storm was moving in. We had 10 inches of snow last Tuesday. At one point it was snowing so hard I couldn't see the highway in front of the house.  All this snow led to another day off on Wednesday.  We currently have to make up 2 days in June.  I hope that will be it!

This weekend the temperature was in the 50's.  Almost all of the snow is gone. This coming week will continue to be warm and hopefully we'll continue to have some lovely sunshine!