Its a good day, I say....

Today I had intended to go to work; well, the weather had some other plans for me. It iced over last night, but only after snowing. Then it warmed up, making the roads like skating lanes. Those not in demanding job positions should stay at home. Strangely, this means, hmm, only I am at home. Hmmm, why? Well, Dad and Robyn had to run to Caledonia while they can still get out. Ben is doing a nescessary trip for water heater parts for the barn, we can't make it without a water heater in the barn, or the pipeline is a mess. Even Laura is out and about (not even surprising) and she had to take Brea Anne to get her leg stitched closed again. She broke it open recently. Mom is in a demanding job role, so she had to go to work. She left around 4:45 to be there on time. We won't be seeing her until supper I'm sure.

So, it is just me and my kids here today. What did we do? We made a snowman! Yeah! Ellie and Joey couldn't agree on whether it was a snowman or a snowwoman. Joey advocated for a snow man. Ellie dissented. Well, I settled it easily, by naming said snowman Bai Fan (white rice) which we all said could be a boy?? or girl?? YOU decide! Well, Bai Fan looked kinda lonely all by h'self out in the yard....

So we gave our new friend a new friend. A snow puppy. Hehe. And that is our kind of humor! We wore ourselves out having fun in the snow. Besides making snowman and dog, we also entertained ourselves by throwing snowballs and the (real) dogs around here were happily busy chasing and sometimes catching them. When we finally got cold everyone came in (Joey last, who was enjoying burrowing a hole in the snowdrift south of the machine shed) and we had hot noodle soup, hot steamers and popcorn for lunch.

Now the children are enjoying Charlotte's Web on the VCR.

It's been a good day thus far!