Snow Day

Monday was my first day back to school. (The students came on Tuesday.) It snowed Monday early morning which led to great driving conditions! It took me 20 minutes to drive what usually takes 5 minutes. Matt couldn't work in the snow and couldn't trailer anywhere because of the roads so he stayed home with the girls. He's not one to stay inside all day, but he managed to get quite a bit accomplished that is on our "list" of things to do. What a great guy! After I got home, he trekked out to the horses to attempt to clean snow out of the round pen and arena.


The girls and I went outside and played for a while before helping Matt. (Although, I don't think we were much help to him!) We played "Fox and Geese." I remember my grandma, cousins, and I playing this on occasion. It is a version of tag where the fox chases the goose/geese around the circle. You can cross through the circle by using the path and the middle is the "cooking pot" if you get tagged. Ginger and Mylie had a hard time following the rule about staying on the paths! Ha! Ginger thought it was a great game and joined right in and our stallion King was indifferent. He just calmly watched the screaming and chaos. He was probably just wondering when someone was going to feed him. (And he is fenced in with hot wire even though it doesn't look like it.)





Mesa made up her own version of "freeze tag." She made up her own rules. If the person who is "it" threw a snowball at you and hit you, you were frozen. Pretty creative for a five year old, I thought! What was even more creative was how she figured out how to play it with just her and I...she would throw a snowball at me--hit me--I was frozen--then she would come and unfreeze me like she was now on my team--then I'd get hit again. It cracked me up.

Mylie just enjoyed eating the snow. She probably ate her weight in snow. She went through two sets of gloves and then no gloves at all. I wouldn't let her eat it when we were out near the horses, too much recycled hay if you know what I mean. I'm sure she did it anyway when I wasn't looking. Oh well!