Snow day!

Today is my first honest to goodness snow day in recent memory.

Everything is closed around here: schools, daycares, school buses... flights are canceled at the airport, and the MOT is telling people to stay off the roads if they can. When all's said and done, we'll get about 40-50 cm of snow! It's mighty pretty, and since I'm not driving to work today, I'm actually enjoying myself.

I made good on my challenge to bring the kids outside. My three-year-old LOVES the outdoors. We were out for an hour or so (while I managed to shovel about one fifth of the laneway!) and she wasn't ready to come in.

My two-year-old, in the meantime, is the outdoors child from hell. She is such a princess. She refuses to walk outdoors (the kids and hubby walk 1km home from daycare every day, and if they're not in a sled, he has to carry her). She refuses to hike. And apparently, she doesn't like to play in the snow. She was basically ok for the first few minutes, if you call sitting around in a snowbank whining ok. Then she started crying because there was snow on her scarf. And on her coat. And because she fell out of the sled. And... you get the point. After an hour, we all came in. What she doesn't realize is that we have to go back out later so I can finish the laneway and eventually get the car in the street.


Oh well. Kiddo better get used to it. I hear we're in for another wallop on Friday. It's going to be one hell of a winter.