Snow Day 2 of 2 (let's hope!)

Well, I really only thought I'd be doing one post about snow, when I took those first pictures, but believe it or not, we got a call this morning around 6:15 saying school would be delayed by 2 hours because of ice again...and then got a call at 8 that it was canceled!  The kids were actually not as excited today.  Elle had a big UIL meet scheduled for today, that was rescheduled from Friday...canceled again!  Ava was bummed because she liked how her hair looked and wanted to show her friends. ha!  Either way, three seconds after telling the kids that school was canceled, I told Shawn that we needed to have an emergency meeting without the kids.....being home with no plans and three bored kids has to be one of the levels of hell.  Seriously, unless your kids like playing alone all day long, it makes for a long painful day if you don't get some planning going on!  So since we weren't allowed to go to school because of "bad" road conditions....we thought it made since to drive around town doing stuff together.

This....this is what canceled another day of school.  A thin layer of ice....seems not that dangerous...except it is, if you're having to drive on it!

We got to the library as it opened and had the whole children's section to ourselves for quite a while.  We lost track of time and realized we were there almost two hours by the time we left!

 After the library we headed to Walmart altogether and I was reminded why I NEVER take all three kids to the store....they are incessant about wanting stuff and if I had let them, we could have spent $300 on a whole lot of seriously junky food.  We thought we were being generous by letting each of them pick out a Lunchable (which they never get) and a sucker, which they were SUPER excited about.  After lunch and during nap time, we played a little bit of candyland....I lost big time.  Ava wanted so much for me to win that she kept not wanting to take cards just so we could both win (she does not get this from me. lol)

Also during "quiet" time, the girls decided to use the karaoke machine microphone to make speeches about nonsensical things....I should have recorded them.....truly...nonsense.....lots and lots of it.  You couldn't get away from their voices!!!

Elle was desperate to make a speech and was looking for anything to read out loud.  She found her STAAR writing preparation paper her teacher had given her with lots of helpful hints, so that's what she read.  I considered that her homework for the day.

I also made a caramel pie for after dinner....yuuumm.

After dinner and baths, we all settled in with some popcorn to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, which we've wanted to see since it came out in October.  The kids were very excited about this and we loved it! 

Today felt like a long day....time when slowly....maybe a little too slowly...but the kids loved our spontaneous family day and so did we.  And I'm very thankful that there is no chance of snow or ice tomorrow.