Top Ten List

For those of you who haven't tuned into the national news the last couple days, ND has experienced yet again a pretty bad blizzard. We have been stormed in now for two days and mommy says she can't wait for Tuesday (whatever that means). I guess she just misses her job so much! No, actually we have all enjoyed being home together... with no place to go and nothing really pressing to do. It was pretty relaxing for the most part ( a little crazy at times too, as you can imagine with 5 kids stuck indoors wanting to go play out in the snow soooo badly). Why not let them you ask? The temperature with the wind chill is quite dangerous, dropping as low as 40 below!~ So here are the top ten highlights of our "snow days"!

10. We watched a movie, or two snuggled up in our pj's, by our electric heater from Papa Parker! (he knows just how cold ND gets) Thank You Papa Parker!
9. Adrian got pretty good at basic math addition facts and new spelling words for this week!
(I guess that means we practiced them quite a bit)
8. Daddy gave all 3 boys a hair cut - (As you can see, Jaxon wanted his just as short as Daddy's)
7. We played Nintendo DS, our Leapsters, and Pac-Man
6. We helped Mommy with ALL her holiday baking, and gift wrapping.
5. We made individual forts using ALL the blankets and pillow in the house! (see above)
4. Mommy beat Daddy at several games of Canasta! :)
3. We played play-Doh, colored, read books, played trains, dolls, house, dinosaurs, and Memory.
2. Daddy got to spend 1/2 of his Monday work day at home, but we didn't see him much because his time was spent on the driveway snow blowing, shoveling, etc just to get his car out.
1. Daddy got to read the Sunday paper on Monday because the paper boy couldn't get through our 5 foot snow drifts on Sunday to deliver it....