Snow Days

When the blizzard of 2011 hit central Illinois, we were shut in for 3 days. A neighbor hired a local farmer to plow most of our street with his tractor. (Because the cul-du-sac appeared to be plowed, the city felt it was good enough, and the area in front of our house was never cleared. It took Scott several days to carve a path for us to leave.) The huge pile created by the tractor became a sledding and snowboarding hill for the kids. But we were too overprotective to let Emma get in the mix. She was able to watch them from the playroom window on quite a few occasions. We ventured to the backyard for some of our own playtime in the snow. A drift provided Emma a nice climbing challenge.