Blizzard: Still Snowing

It's been snowing since I posted this morning, leaving about 2" plus behind, enough to level the Belgian block lining the driveway.  I hadn't expected this much snow until tonight and the rain mentioned in the forecast hasn't materialized, but it's only 1 p.m. so there is time for all of that.

It's beautiful outside and cozy inside.  There's a nice blanket of white on everything, which our dear backyard squirrel is surveying from his or her own comfy home in the knot of our big tree; Mama took a picture with her special camera which I might manage to download someday.  The kids are doing a 1000 piece puzzle with Mama, who was at work for a few hours this morning before they sent everyone home.  The kids have done some dramatic play with their penguin and bunny contingent, played outside including making thin driveway snow angels, played Minecraft on the iPod (with credits earned from being outside in the snow), and compile the valentines for their whole class--Sis had Hello Kitty with a notepad for girls and Phineas and Ferb with eraser for boys plus Kit Kats for all, while Bud had Clone Wars with mini glow sticks and also Starbursts for everyone.  No one liked my idea of hand-making cards, alas.  I've participated in these activities, made roasted chickpeas, helped Sis make a nice coffee cake for breakfast, and been reading my current downstairs book, Bill Bryson's At Home, a history of domestic spaces (upstairs, I'm ignoring a parenting book!).

We finished a foraging lunch--leftover Chinese from their outing last night, chicken sandwiches, mujadara plus hummus and chickpea salad for me--and are about to a). watch Fantasia, b). keep working on the puzzle, or c). have Mama play another computer game with the kids.

And it just keeps snowing.