We had our first two wintry storms last week—snow followed by ice—and Connor's school closed for two days.
At one point, I considered placing an ad:
Mary Poppins/Maria von Trapp #1: Fired.
She (being me) pulled out the paint.
Word to the wise and otherwise, as my grandmother used to say: Snow is less messy than paint. I must've been absent from school when teachers taught that lesson.
The fruit of our mess-making:
And a reindeer with rather odd antlers:
every child is an artist
he gets his drawing chops from me