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Snow Day


Yet another snow day. I had the kids up, dressed, in coats and waiting for the van to pick them up. We checked the news at 7 and their school was not listed. After waiting a few minutes for the bus, we checked the news again. 7:30 and they decided to postpone 2 hours. That turned into a cancelled day shortly after. The wind had really picked up and the roads were icy. The kids have been home so much lately, it feels like the are on Christmas break. They watch tv, play computer and xbox games, play with their toys, read, do school work that I make them do, and some playing outside. Jake has been out in the snow every day so far. Over the weekend I helped the kids start a snow fort in one of the big snow drifts behind the evergreens. I dug them two big holes that they could tunnel together. I remember making snow forts as a kid every winter. We loved digging and seeing how big we could make them. We used to build with Angie and John. Cousin John always made the biggest and coolest ones, you could almost stand up inside.
I like to remember memorable things the kids say. Today Jake told us that he wanted us to put Mikey on his Christmas list this year. He wanted Santa to bring him for Christmas. That made me so sad. Mikey is our cat that disappeared a year ago in October. We had him for 9 years and he was the greatest. The kids have been missing him lately. I think they had always hoped he would just come back one day and after all this time I think the have realized he is not. I miss him too.

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