After a day of more snow… … the power has gone out twice. First world problems require first world solutions. So the kids had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, applesauce, Pirate’s Booty and milk for dinner in front of a roaring fire and watched Cars 2 on the iPad – which I had fully charged […]

With all the snow, we’re stuck inside the house.  Leave it to Tad to get creative and imagine a trip to the zoo when we can’t get there. First, use your brother’s chunky dinosaur puzzle to stage a prehistoric era scene. Tad had the herbivores with leafy green bushes or trees, or drinking water, the […]

When you’re snowed in, you have to get creative with your activities. Ane had Little Mo over to play (having a good buddy live in the same cul-de-sac is super convenient), and the girls had their nails done by me. Tad likes to build things.  This is a blaster, he tells me. And Rerun is […]

So, it came down and stayed down.