Junk in the Trunk

Whether it is the chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, the donkey rides or the fresh baked cookies straight from the oven - who doesn't love a snow day?!

The boys were ecstatic to hear that the school buses were cancelled today due to the ridiculous amount of snow that we received.  We normally drive them to school on snow days but this morning we made a deal that if there was absolutely no fighting, they could stay at home.

Thank goodness we had fuelled up on pancakes because once Grandma arrived to watch Ali, the big boys, Ian and I spent close to two hours plowing and shovelling ourselves out.

Liam is dead tired from all his hard work!

Once we were finally able make our way to Charlie's barn and then shovel both the gate and her barn door open, she was so happy to see us that she bestowed donkey rides on Liam and Seamus.

Abbott was also happy to be free but instead of offering rides, he just shook the junk in his trunk at us as he paraded around in the blizzard.

After a lunch of hot homemade chilli and mint chocolate chip cookies, all three boys bedded down concurrently (a small miracle) and I had a whole hour free to curl up with a novel in my favourite comfy chair.

To my amazement, the boys were able to stick to our deal and we ended up having a great day together.   I mean, really, minimal bickering and naps all around - I am not sure it gets better than that when you are snowed in with three small but oh so energetic boys.