W&WWW Weekend Edition

That would be Wild & Wacky Washington Weather to you.

At 6:37 Friday morning the Oly School District called to inform us that, once again, school would be closed due to inclement weather. Wonderful! That first day was great, even welcome. Day 2 might not go as well.

The food supply was low, as was my patience. The sky was clear, and the snow was slushy. For the second day in row they built forts, ate homemade waffles, and then headed outside.

The boys had fun playing some crazy monster game in the woods while the girls enjoyed being pulled around on the sled.

Despite the sunshine peeking through, it was freezing! Below freezing to be exact. That made for a very slippery sheet of ice on my driveway:

That mound of ugliness, that's my knee. Did I mention it was slippery? Ouch!


Luckily, not all bad comes from slippery. A slippery driveway means a slippery street upon which to sled:



That's J in front of our house. I love hearing his excitement as he's going down that hill. I didn't realize it was that steep; although, seeing my then-three year old on his bike shooting down there at full speed and crash into the railing because he didn't know how to apply his brakes should have clued me in. Welcome to the neighborhood!

Okay. I got sidetracked. That's a story for another day.

By the time 4:30 came around, M and I had been stuck in Woodtrails since Tuesday. That's three-and-a-half-plus days, People! We met Daddy at the mall. I went to get a haircut while he and the kiddos went to Chuck E Cheese, then we all met up and had Thai food for dinner.

That was all I wrote for the rest of the weekend. I didn't step outside again until yesterday morning. I organized, I scraped, I loved it. D went to the gym and the grocery store both days. And the kids, they joined him on his gym outings. Other than that, we were pretty much all hermits.

We had two movies nights ~ one family and one adult (not that adult), ate good food, watched the Oscars, J played way too much Wii. We even got a game of Monopoly Junior in.

As any person living in the Northwest will tell you, a little rain ~ okay, a lot of rain ~ a whole lot of rain ~ isn't going to stop the earth's rotation -- or a kid's soccer game, for that matter. We may grunt and complain, but we'll slip on our rain boots and go with it. And when summer decides to finally make an appearance, we'll go even faster ~ sans the rain boots, of course ~ Because before we know it, the rain will come back to overstay its welcome once again.

Sometimes a late-winter snowfall, though it may not stop the earth's rotation either, puts a wonderfully unexpected stop to our routine. And a smile on our face.

(And a video on the blog? Maybe! First time I've been able to load one. And not for lackof trying. Enjoy!)