We have this nice, noisy snowblower that works great IF you know how to operate it! I obviously don't know how to work it, so we used our muscles to shovel the 4+ inches of snow this morning. Add in the 1.5" from yesterday and we were moving about 6" of snow. I figured a way to get my reluctant helper to help. I gave them the job of getting the sidewalk done before playtime. Having an end to their work, they got on it pretty quickly and got it done with little complaining.
But shoveling is always easier when it's NOT your yard. The kids shoveled Doris's driveway and sidewalks last storm and couldn't wait to get ours done so they could head down there and do hers. She has ALOT of sidewalk to shovel since she lives on the corner.
Ammon was in charge of the front walk, steps and porch. He worked so hard and wanted to get every snow flake off. Him and Corrine had tiny shovels that take lots of little scoops to get an area clean.
Simeon and Joe working on her front sidewalk. Joe has been an awesome friend to our kids since we moved into our house 6.5 years ago.
Corrine worked so hard to get the end of the driveway cleared. The plow puts so much heavy wet, dirty snow on the ends of the driveways and it's always the worst the place to shovel. She thought I was just taking a picture of the flowers on her hat.
Rebecca got a free ride on the purple sled that has brought so many smiles to all 4 of the kids. She has her hands full of 2 big icicles she kicked off the down spout. Today we discovered that the sled has a hole in the bottom, but for now it's still usable. It's sad to see something all the kids have used hit the end of it's life, but it's also awesome to think of all the smiles, laughs and memories made by it.
The tale of Simeon's snow gloves. He got a hole in his pair that he'd been wearing for a good 2 years. I searched for weeks to get him a good pair of gloves that he could grow into and use for a long time. 3 weeks after getting them he's already had lost one of them twice. Corrine found the 1st lost one on the way home from school. The 2nd time losing the glove and it's still missing 2 weeks later. Poor brand new glove without a pair to play with. Today Simeon eyed my pink snow gloves and went for them. He's had some very cold fingers lately. But really how do you teach a kid when they never get uncomfortable. I find these too warm for me when shoveling, so I was fine with him wearing them.
We're getting what they call "snow fatigue" with all the storms we've had recently. March has come in like a lion, so hopefully it'll go out like a lamb.
