Super Snow Day

Today we woke up to a "beautiful" site....6 inches of snow! This amount of snow is unheard of in England and it literally shut down the country when a storm hit London on Monday and it was crazy around here today. One hundred and eighty two schools in the Peterborough area where shut down and people just didn't go into work because transportation was horribly dangerous. Imagine six inches of snow and no way to remove it. The cities here don't own snow removal equipment like plows because it's a waste of money when it never snows like this. Well my wonderful husband didn't think anything of the snow as his driven through worse so he braved off to work this morning. Our friend Danny Wong did as well and took an amazing picture of the roads on the drive in. Kevin called about an hour later and said he finally made it to work and was walking through 6 inches of snow through the car park and sidewalks because no one had been out to clear them yet...he wasn't sure if they were going to either.
At 8 AM I called my neighbor boy, Yi Hong and told him to call us back when he was ready to go out and play in the snow and I would get us all dressed up. He said that maybe around 9 or 10 or maybe 11 he would be ready to go. Five minutes later I get a call from Min saying he was ready to go now. So I bundled up the kids and myself in all the garb I could. Addie is really getting good use out of the snow suit my mom and dad got her from Cabela's. I bundled Harrison up in the cutest sweater and thick pants my Aunt Tammy and Uncle Kevin sent him and got him to sit in his car seat for awhile as I got to play with all the kids. I dug out my big yellow ski jacket that I've had since a sophmore in college and found some slicky pants to go over some fleece pants since I didn't have my own proper snow pants.
By the time we finally got outside, Robert and Matthew had already rolled a huge snow ball into our front yard to start our snowman quartet. Kevin gave us homework to build our family out of snow and all the kids were a big help in getting it done.

Mei Mei and Molly were so helpful in playing with Harrison a bit when he got really fussy. He wanted to join in the fun, but I told him he had to wait until next year.

The girls also helped Addison learn how to make snow angels. I tried it myself and didn't realize how hard it is to do with really packy snow. But I totally felt like I was 10 years old again.

Me and Harrison all bundled up!

Addison loved throwing snowballs.  It was a little tough for her but Mei Mei and Yi Hong showed her how to do it.

In England, for some reason, they call this "sledging."  I call it cute!!!  We don't have any hills around to go "sledding" but a short ride around the cul de sac works just fine for this duo.

Danny got sent home early from work so he joined in the fun.  Poor Kevin was stuck at work catching up on things and since he still had to coordinate with the States he had meetings until 6 PM tonight.

There were so many people outside.  I have never seen more people out on the green the whole year and a half we've been here.

Loads of people stopped by to see our snow men.  Our two babysitters, Emily B and Katie G and Katie's mum, Sue, all stopped by.

Our house looked so pretty with all the snow and our jolly snow men out front.

And the biggest thing that brought me back to my childhood was when I hung up our wet clothes on the radiators to dry.  I remember unloading all out clothes in the basement after several house of snow playing bliss.  Things have come full circle now that I am now doing it with my kiddos!!!