Snow Day

Last night WSU cancelled classes for today and Maia's school wasn't too far behind.

It was supposed to start snowing at 2 am and dump 6 inches throughout the day.

At 5 am the ground was clear and I thought for sure Wichita had overreacted.

Just 2 hours later we had accumulated at least an inch and a half.

So of course a snow day calls for pancakes.

You can't tell, but they're purple pancakes.

At first I didn't put enough red in and they looked like swamp water and Ruby said "I'm not going to eat those," but then I added more red and they looked acceptable to everyone.

Maia was sad to miss school, so I said we could do our own version today.

We started with activity centers.

Maia pretended to be her best friend Reese and Ruby pretended to be Maia.

I, of course, was Mrs. Burcham.

On Tuesdays Maia has music and gym.

Today in music class we talked about wind, percussion, and string instruments.

I was Mr. Elmore.

Then we sang a song that my mom taught us the last time she was here.

Next we headed to gym class.

Maia wanted to go to library too.

Mrs. Mattix (me again!) read them 2 books, so they got to put 2 stickers on the wall.

(Honestly, doing this today was great, I got more details about school than I usually do.)

After lunch and nap, I gave in to the girls' pleas and we headed outside.

They lasted for almost an hour while I got half of the driveway shoveled.

By the time they wanted to go inside, they were soaking wet and freezing.

I guess I'm still a California girl at heart, I haven't given in and bought proper winter attire.

It was a super full, fun day.

I'm exhausted.

But guess what?

We get to do it again tomorrow during SNOW DAY #2!