Too Much Snow

Lately, the snow just won't stop coming. This is our first year here, when we've really had to deal with heavy lake effect snow! Maybe it's mostly that driveway that seems to have gotten longer since September.
The snow has kept us inside a lot this year. Two days of canceled church and our school district has declard seven snow days this month. Now, this homebody doesn't mind too much; I'm fine with drinking some hot chocolate and spending the day in my jammies with a book. But Jared cries when there isn't preschool and asks if we are going to have to stay inside forever.

And because it is so cold, the snow is like powder and won't stay put. So even when it hasn't snowed, the wind blows our piles and we have to shovel again. (We meaning Ken and Ruth and sometimes a little helper.)

Late night shoveling

Ruth and Jared made this fort before the cold front came, so the snow actually held together. Each boulder is about three feet high. I love watching how the snow drifts around it!

Ken got home from a business trip. And shoveled. (Do you see Jared with a push broom cleaning off Ruth's car?)

Rosie likes to "shovel" with a rake.

One morning Ruth got stuck in our unshoveled driveway and couldn't get to work. Or maybe this was the day she got home and couldn't get her car up our driveway.

Our porch drift.

I am just hoping that I can keep up this trend of hanging out indoors and avoiding shoveling!