Snowflakes and Raindrops

We did indeed have a snow day today. Sort of. It was a snow day because it did snow enough to cancel school, but it started raining at about 10:30 or 11 am. Before that was the 6:30 phone call to announce the school closure, then the 7:15 call from my sister to update the flight info (delayed minimally), then the infusion of kids into my bed, and finally the realization that I hadn't heard from my cleaning woman and needed to get up. So at 7:45 I got up and opened the shade to a view of a beautiful snow covered world and a car that jumped the curb and came to a rest on my neighbor's lawn with the help of a well placed tree. Well that entertained the troops for about an hour. They were mesmerized by the (immobile) car, and then eventually the cop, and then finally the tow truck. I'm not sure if another car that was originally on the scene hit the guy who ended up parking up the wrong tree, or if tree man wasn't just blaming the guy. Either way, the unstuck car stuck around until the cop showed up.

After that was just the lazy day we had hoped for with the anticipation of the cousins' arrival. Once that happened it was time for lunch. We eschewed pasta for Pizza (the roads were slushy at this point and though not perfect, more than passable). Sledding was off the schedule because of the rain. I don't mind if they go out when it's snowing, but I wasn't willing to send them out in the rain. So we went to visit the Grandmother and did a little shoveling, noshing and shmoozing.

The rest of the day was uneventful and I messed myself up by writing the blog post yesterday. Because now I do feel bad that I was not productive. I'm hoping for a sort of do over. A one o two hour delay would be perfect. Not to be productive of course, but maybe I could sleep guilt free.......

Potentially.