I really love snow days.  (Insert sigh of contentment.)

Sure the girls are getting a little cabin fever and folks seem a bit put out that school’s been cancelled again and I really don’t want to lose my entire February break because we already made vacation plans but snow days.  Ahhh.

It’s like Christmas break without all the stress and strain of go-here-do-this-get-that.  It’s just time to be.  To stay home and drink a second cup of coffee in my pajamas.  To play games at the kitchen table and put together puzzles.  To eat soup and grilled cheese for every meal. (not that we did that.)

Sure I could be worrying about how I’m going to make up a week of lost instruction in this time crunch before testing.  How I’m going to get all the extra laundry we’ve gone through taken care of.  How I’m going to have to figure out some more structure for summer because otherwise the girls are going to drive me crazy fighting. (which they intersperse with regular intervals of curling up in the arm chair together to watch cartoons.)

Snow days remind me that sometimes we all just need to slow down.  I hope yours was a gift and not an inconvenience.  I pray it was a reminder that sometimes being trapped at home with no agenda is the breather we all need. (sigh again) 

Besides the bustle of normalcy will return all too soon.  And when it does, we’ll look back at these days with longing.

And thankfulness that rain boots were such a popular trend this year.

Lindsey

Since you really don’t want to hear about how truly manic my life is going to be this week, you can hop on over to Black Tag Diaries and thank Julia for giving me this award.

Julia had the misfortune of moving away before we could really get to know each other, so in keeping with the rules of this award, I’m going to reveal some things any good friend of mine should really know….

 It’s my favorite season and this week it’s like the autumn fairies in Belle’s Tinkerbell movie have finally dusted our little corner of God’s country with red and gold.

Even though it’s been almost 80 all week.  And humid.  And rainy.  It’s fall.  I drive home on the little winding country backroads and see the kind of picturesque settings found on postcards or Thomas Kincaide paintings or screen savers.  (yeah, I know that’s totally random, but I have a screen saver with the most gorgeous and soothing pictures on my computer at school.)

So, naturally this Thursday, I’m thankful for fall and all it’s glorious splendor.  And I’m thankful to have three sweet girls who also love…
pumpkins and quirky gourds
hot cider and sugar cookies
hayrides and corn mazes
mums and scarecrows
raking up leaves just to jump
twilight stillness
just cool enough for a scarf
and boots
storing up memories for winter…

Do you know which baby girl this is in the pumpkin bucket?

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I’m so thankful it’s Thursday because that means tomorrow is Friday and that means the weekend is here!

So, maybe I’ll have time to catch my breath before things get all crazy again, or maybe I’ll at least have the chance to be thankful that my life is full of crazy random