Snowed In, Again

Same story different week. We got socked by another blizzard/winter storm starting Sunday night and lasting throughout Monday. For the second consecutive week schools were closed on both Monday and Tuesday. The poor school kids around here won't have any summer vacation at all. Already their school year has been extended by a week. I think they're up to about June 12 now. At least.

I'm really not sure how much snow we received. I think they said at least a foot of new snow in Rapid City. We may have gotten more out where we live. The Northern Black Hills (about 45 minutes or so from us) got about 2 feet of new snow! Obviously, we still had some snow left over from last week's blizzard, as well.

Guess what? We may have a lot more of this come Friday night, too.

Snow changes everything. It sure it beautiful, especially on afternoons like today when the skies are a rich blue and the sun is shining. But I think I'm about ready for a change in seasons now.

And I sure could use a break to do my own homework! It's kind of hard with two preschoolers and a dog under foot. But the children don't need nearly as much hovering as they did a year ago. I just have to be diligent in making sure they don't watch too much TV. I try to set the limit to two hours total a day. On days like today they'll meet that. Thankfully, on many other days they don't watch much at all.

This morning the children and I played Go Fish (video below) for a while in an effort to do something different. Plus, I think cards games are great memory and educational tools. Then we later went outside for some snow play.

BTW, this hill that Anna appears to the running down in the first big photo? There's flat land under that huge snow mound.

There's supposed to be a little gravel road somewhere under all that snow.


Our "driveway" (really the gravel road that connects our driveway to the main road).


Here we are fishing.