Snow Day

The black ice continues to change our daily plans.

First, it messed up our birthday party for Kellah on Saturday.

And now today, the school district cancelled school, so Lawrence and Coralyn were home today.

We made the most of our extra time together, though.

Grocery trip to Aldi.

Then, for some fun...we headed to Build-a-Bear so Kellah could pick out her birthday present.

She chose a unicorn and named her Queen Sparkle.

Can you tell she loves her?!

Once we were home and had the groceries put away, the clean clothes folded and put up, and lunch eaten, we set to work on our Advent Jar activity.

Today, we got to make "gingerbread" houses.

If you know anything about me, you know I like to make things as healthy as possible.

So, we used graham crackers, peanut butter, raisins, banana chips, and pretzels for our building materials.

I'm not a total "mean" mom, so I also put out some chocolate chips and chocolate wafer sticks.  It IS the holiday season, after all.  Gotta have some sweets, right?!  

The girls had fun making their houses, and I enjoyed seeing their creativity and imaginations coming through as they put the decorations on their little houses.

Their hands may have been covered in peanut butter and the table was a complete MESS, but they had fun!  

I am trying to remind myself that memories are more important than a clean house!  

I pray the girls will look back on these times with fondness and tell their kids about our traditions.  I hope they will take some of these traditions with them and carry them on in their own families.

For now, I am soaking up the laughter and trying to bottle it up to have for years and years to come.

I think I better understand how Mary felt and what it means when "she treasured all these things in her heart."  Of course, she was the mother of GOD, so she has me there...

Whatever the case may be, I think we have made good out this snow day!