Pajamas and Coffee

That’s what they’re calling it on twitter (or #snOMG haha), and it’s perfect.

Here’s a picture of our house, during the *first* blizzard last weekend, which dumped two feet of snow on us. Then, because my mom’s birthday dinner had to be canceled but I already had all the food, we had a little Blizzard Party with a few good friends/neighbors who can walk to our house:

I never get to be all Martha-y and we never use the formal dining room except on Christmas and Thanksgiving, so it was nice to have an excuse! Plus, we all drank a ton and played ‘Apples to Apples’ (kids table was in the kitchen, yo!) and it was a blast.

(I put Snowpocalypse/Blizzard photo album on Facebook if you want to check it out.)

Here are a few more storm photos:

This is the cute little pair of snowpeople my kids made ‘between blizzards.’

The kids and I finished a 1500 piece puzzle inside of 48 hours, which is how you can tell we were bored.

But you know what?

Ok, I am going to get all Hallmarky for just one little second (sorry)- but this whole blizzard thing has been kinda fun. We’re all in our pajamas all day:

…this is Bobby and Faith (my 2 youngest, because my teen girls would HURL before they’d let me take pix in their PJs…) happily playing school together (read: 1st grader bosses preschooler around and he obeys like a puppy…) and yeah, yeah, I really need to take that little Christmas tree down from his room what with it being FEBRUARY and all…cripes.)

My husband and I did sneak out for drinks and dinner at the local bar Doc’s in between the blizzards, which was super nice.

We can’t GO anywhere so everyone is just kind of in a chillaxin mood- we have a warm fire, movies and games (and Facebook haha) and soon enough I’ll be rushing the 4 kids to their 4 schools and running around like a chicken with my head cut off, so I am just sort of enjoying the forced relaxation!

Who knows when it will happen again, and I know we’ll all always remember it. (“Remember that time we had back to back blizzards and we were snowed in for a whole week?!”)

(a view of the ‘porch furniture’ on our back deck!)

The main advantage of back to back blizzards dumping 3 feet of snow on you? The kids will be in school til July.