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Who ME?

Monday seemed like the day I couldn’t keep my kids from eating half of the snow that fell in SC. Whether they were licking it off of shovels or eating it off of pick up trucks, they were eating SNOW!

As hard as everyone (else) was working at making snowmen our youngest was working just as hard at eating them.

When I yelled his name this is the expression I got:

The oldest was enjoying his share of the white stuff too but at least he ate it with his hands and not right off the snowman.

Today it’s almost 60 and tomorrow’s forecast is 70.
Time to find the shorts.

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Hanging Out – Raising Boys!

While we were busy in and out of the snow on Monday I, at some point, walked into the kitchen to find this site…..

I had my camera out anyway so I grabbed a few (horribly unfocused) pictures because I knew I had to show you. Don’t some of the things your kids do just make you wonder what they were thinking?

So I’m thinking something like, “Maybe he was just bored and wanted to try out hanging techniques for when he grows up.”

YIKES!

Or maybe he was thinking they are going to be best friends forever and wanted to tie them together with “cords that can not be easily broken.”

Either way I’m a tad bit concerned.
Maybe I should go talk to him. Because when I went to get his Valentine Bear the other night off my bed this little guy was attached to him.

Hmmmm…….

Maybe I SHOULD go ask him….
Just a minute.
To our #2 Son…..”Wanna tell mom what this is all about?”
From #2 Son……“Oh that.….. (without skipping a beat)……Mom, I just loose him all the time and this way I don’t.”

Whew!

I can sleep tonight.

Kids…..they are just so darn practical.

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Posted: March 4, 2009 by Julie |Category: Parenting | Tags:

The joys of homeschooling in the snow!

March 1st and SC is finally getting it’s first snow of the year. What a blast we’ve had. The snow was thick and beautiful as it fell Sunday night. Here’s some pictures from our excursions.

As it began to snow Sunday night….

About an hour after the rain turned to snow….

It didn’t take long for the snow to begin to stick…..

Poor southern kids, licking snow off shovels! We eat it any way we can!

Sometimes we just eat it off our pickup trucks….
After 30 minutes of snow baby girl decided she was ready for some hot chocolate and warm dry clothes…

You know the saying in the south….”If you don’t like the weather, stick around. It’ll change.”
As you can see by my blooming bush with snow on top!

The next morning was exciting as we had endured a night without power, snow, rain, sleet and freezing rain. This is what we found when we opened the door.

Soon we were all bundled up for some snow play, snowman building and a little sledding.

As the boys were in a full fledged snow ball fight baby girl was having a fight of her very own with a snow ball. This was the bottom of her snow baby. No doubt she has three brothers. If you can not get it to move, you kick it!!!

After lots of hard work the snow family was done.

Then it was off to sledding and swinging.

Sorry, no pictures of sledding but I was snapping with a friend’s camera and they are all on that camera.

Then it was back to the house for some MORE snow cream…

And that was our wonderful, wild and wet day in the only snow we’ve had this year. I did a million and a half loads of wet laundry. How do you guys who live up North do it?