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I missed What the Hell Wednesday yesterday. That is because I had 2 children underfoot all day. School was canceled because we got more snow than expected. We got about 6 inches of snow. Alright, all of you in the Midwest, stop laughing. Here in the Small Town, snow is a challenge. Now many people are not sure how to spend an unexpected day stuck at home with the children (without killing anyone). As a service to you, I am going to provide you with a schedule on how to spend a snow day with your children without losing your mind. 6:30-7:00 am: Watch the local news to see if school is closed. If you are like me, you somehow got on the phone list for a nearby school district and received a call at 5:45 am, telling you that that town has no school. It has no bearing on my life, but I certainly appreciated the notification (especially at 5:45 am, you never know when I was planning a visit to another town’s schools). 7:00-8:00 am: Watch Small Town Daddy get ready for work. Joanna enjoys barging in on him in the shower and if she isn’t rushing to get ready for school, she has plenty of time to barge. 8:00-9:00 am: Eat numerous breakfasts. The Small Town Ladies are very picky eaters. Coming up with breakfast must be planned with military precision. They do enjoy the chocolate chip muffins from the grocery store, but how many of those can you feed a child before it becomes child abuse? 9:00-9:30 am: Try to get the fireplace lit. We use the fireplace to help heat the house in the winter so really need it when it is cold. 9:30-11:30 am: Play Super Mario Brothers. This takes longer than it should because it involves numerous arguments about who jumped on whom and caused them to fall off of a cliff. For the record, Joanna quit 3 times when Libby yelled at her (she seems to have inherited her mother’s competitive nature). During this time, I had to reload the fire twice. 11:30-12:00 pm:Have lunch. It is amazing the number of dishes I go through when the ladies are here. I had to run the dishwasher an additional time yesterday. 12:00-2:00 pm: Watch Happily N’Ever After. If you have never heard of it, it is a really cute movie. Cinderella leads a resistance against evil forces. Yes, I know I am not supposed to use the TV as a babysitter, but anytime the kids had 5 seconds of downtime, the yelling and fighting started. I needed to get some work done sometime. Also, I was required to reload the fire twice during the movie. 2:00-2:30 pm: Make homemade hot chocolate. After numerous attempts to find a recipe online, I ended up making up my own. The others had too much extra weird stuff. Here is my recipe: 1 1/2 cups plus a splash of milk Combine everything in a pot and whisk until the chocolate chips melt. Serve. I started out really official, measuring everything carefully. Then I started adding whatever I thought it needed. 2:30-3:00 pm: Shower. A girl has to shower sometime. Who cares if the day is almost over. 3:00-5:00 pm: Send kids outside to play in the snow. It went pretty well except for the rodent they apparently squashed. What kind of rodent runs out in front of a moving sled? I bet you can imagine the trauma that ensued. 5:00-5:45 pm: Cook dinner. We have to eat early on Wednesday night because Libby has her painting class. Don’t think a little thing like snow is going to mess with the painting class schedule. That would mean they would have to reschedule. Too much hassle for what the YMCA pays its employees. 5:45-6:10 pm: Eat dinner. Also, listen to complaints about dinner. This one doesn’t like that thing, the other one doesn’t like something else. It wouldn’t be dinner in my house if I didn’t get to listen to everyone complain about my cooking. 6:10-6:40 pm: Take Libby to art class. I actually had to walk her into the building since I wasn’t sure she was having class because of the major thunderstorm we had during dinner (it was hard to hear the thunder over all the complaining). As you can see, there was no time to blog or do anything else. I didn’t even get to implement my big plan to get the girls to clean their rooms and put their laundry away. Oh well, I am sure this isn’t the last snow day we will have this school year.
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Posted on 20:02, December 10th, 2009 by 
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The best hot chocolate is the recipe on the side of the Hershey Cocoa can – YUM!
LOL it sounds like you had an awesome day. I am glad my kids are not the only kids who kill each other.
I would have sent them outside a lot earlier than 3:00! You have more patience than I.
Happy Snow Day. Ugh.
We never get snow, which makes the kids mad. But I told them it was a trade off… live near the ocean or have snow… my vote is ocean. But it WOULD be nice to have at least one or two snow days!
Ohh I hope you had a good snow day! We still don’t have any. Everyone around is has been snowed in but I think it can’t snow here because we got it all last year
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this schedule would be very useful if I still had kids at home but I am one of the lucky ones who came through it alive…lol
It sounds like a pretty full day. When we lived in snow country my whole day consisted of- spend one hour helping kids get suited up to play in the snow so that they can play in the snow for 20 minutes. Repeat until mom is exhausted or the kids run out of dry clothes. Now that we’re in the land of sunshine, I miss those days.
Sounds like you all had a blast. I can see how snow days could get old… I hope the kiddies at least enjoyed their day off! (Even if it did involve your cooking, haha)
I know how life is like in a small town. We used to live in rural Arkansas, and even with a dusting of snow, all the schools were closed. Of course, the snow often melted by about noon, but there was no point in opening the schools up at that time.
Wow, a snow day for 6 inches of snow and a thunderstorm all in the same day! Sounds like the ladies had a fun filled day though
So THAT’s where my Birthday Snow ended up.
Your hot chocolate recipe sounds intriguing – I might have to try it. Though Princess Nagger seems fine with me simply heating up milk and dumping Nesquik into it, topping it off with a handful (plus a splash) of mini marshmallows…
Princess Nagger is a picky/complaining eater, too – I don’t envy you having that going on in stereo.
It’s snowing here now. We are in the 6 – 12″ part of the warning. Lucky us….
We had a snow day too though with only 5 or 6 inches it wasn’t necessary. Actually my kids didn’t have one but all the other schools did. My neighbor misread the school closing list and though our school was closed so my kids got a day off anyway. I don’t even remember what we did but by the end of the day I was tire of the whole thing. As for blogging I haven’t had much time to do that at all lately and I feel really guilty about it.
After everyone is in bed, put a little something ‘extra’ in the hot chocolate and enjoy the rest of your night :0)
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Wow, your day sounds way more exciting than mine. I don’t even get to watch a movie!
Oh, and thanks for the easy homemade hot chocolate recipe. I’ve looked everywhere for something just like that.