Snow days wearing thin...

So winter break was supposed to be over Tuesday. Mother nature had other plans for the kids. She thought they needed more time off. OH WAIT, the school administrators decided the kids needed more time off because parents can't be parents and make their kids dress weather appropriately and send them to school. When did school staff have to be more of a parent than the parents????

Ok, I'm sorry I was on my soap box about how parents somehow are unable to be parents and make their kids do basic things. (I have a 15 year old so I know how tough teenagers can be. So if he doesn't have the hat and gloves on at least they are in his pocket for an accident.)  Geeze I can't seem to get off my soap box tonight.  Maybe I am ready for the kids to get back to school as it is wearing on me also.

So the kids have used up all their snow days and will now be going longer in the spring.  The weather has been horrible and I do agree they should call off school when the wind temp is -30 but some of their weather days I do not agree with.

The kids have been doing really well considering they have been stuck at home for days. I decided to take them for pizza tonight. Fiasco...FIGHTING about where to eat, FIGHTING about where to sit in car, FIGHTING about what to order...Some days I wonder why I even try.

They have one more day tomorrow. Let's hope they finish out the week on a good note.

Learning on vacation

Sometimes with kids its so easy to sneek in learning and they don't even have a clue they are learning!  That happened on Vern's Christmas vacation.  We headed to a museum and Vern had a good time. He was asking questions and taking pictures an running all over the place.  It was cold and snowy (no surprise) so there was hardly anyone there. We had virtually all the exhibits to ourselves.  I never did tell Vern he was soaking up information. It will be our little secret.  Here are a couple pictures from the outing.  Tomorrow is back to school unless the cold or more snow keeps it closed...

WOAH mom this is cool!

Photo opportunity

Diggin up bones.

Vern's Christmas 2009

Vern's Christmas was exciting for him. He was very excited for all his gifts.  I thought I would describe it with some photos of his Christmas.

Happy with the Bakagons.

Some Wii games.

Hampster in a ball.

Some little guys.

His big gift - electric guitar.

Can you tell he likes it?

I guess he needs a helmet to play.

Pencil case his grandma made for him. :-)

Counting his money in Life game.

And here is his Kiss impersonation when he got a hold of my camera.

Happy New Year

I just wanted to wish everyone a VERY VERY Happy New Year. I hope 2010 brings you many happy times and very few sad ones.

God's Blessings to each of you.

DaMom

Christmas 2009 Blizzard

Since Vern is on hiatus (aka at his dad's) I thought I would share some photos of the wild blizzard we had. I really don't remember this much snow at one time since I was a teenager! THAT was a long time ago. LOL

Enjoy...

Our back deck

Out our other back door - notice the indentations from the door in the snow. It actually was higher by the time the storm was over.

Me sick of shoveling.

Buried Christmas decorations.

My pond is somewhere under this 4 feet of snow!