when life gives you snow, build an igloo (306/365a)

Beautiful snow-fall this whole day. The streets were so quiet, noises dampened by the snow, fewer cars because of the weather, a quiet day in general. Felix let me sleep in a bit, and went out alone to play in the snow. It's a very very wet snow, so we had to hang up everything to dry. I went out and built a snowman with him, and he demanded to go to the farmer's market to get a carrot (They always give kids a carrot to eat there) but I refused and he sulked for a while. The snowman was not to have a long life though...

I convinced Brian to take the afternoon off so we could do something with the white fluffy stuff. Before that happened, the kids were outside alone, and we suddenly heard a very different-from-normal scream, and Theodore yelled Papa Come Quick! ... Henry had thrown his little plastic sled onto the roof, tried to get it by climbing the ladder. The ladder was on uneven ground and had fallen down, and Henry was hanging by his ice-cold fingers by the gutter (not terribly high, but still). Brian was out faster than lightning in his socks, and got him down safely. Henry was trembling with fright, but all was well. Phew!
We decided to build a small igloo, and we worked quite hard, disassembling my snowman (in the meantime Theodore built his own that was taller than he was, and he would not sacrifice that one for the igloo) ... as we built the snow turned wetter and the snow was harder to pack, but we finished just in time for tea-time. We had tea and cookies, the kids served it to us through the window. 

I was nice and sore from all the shoveling and packing action, and ran straight to my rehearsal at the konservatorium. It was still chaos there, who plays when and where etc. It was supposed to go until 9, and instead, we had a break at 9, and rehearsal went till past 10. "One last time" was an oft-repeated phrase. I was nearly asleep on the bus-ride home. I tried to do some lindy-hopping with Brian but decided i was too tired, but found a way to waste time till midnight on my computer. funny how that can happen.

my four boys

 Serving tea.

theodore's snowman, just the right height.