I love snow days!

Alyssa's school got cancelled on Wednesday for snow. I love snow days, they are definitely at the top of my favorite things list. I love them because for me it means spending the entire day playing with my kids and everything else sort of gets cancelled. It means a (rare) day that I don't have to leave the house for anything and getting dressed is completely optional. I say optional because I have a little girl that loves to declare a pajama day and then goes upstairs to change out of her current pajamas into the perfect pajamas for pajama day. But she doesn't usually stop there...Wednesday she wore 3 different pairs of pajamas and 1 ballet outfit...I LOVE her! Aiden on the other hand wants nothing to do with pajama day, this little boy wants clothes! As Alyssa started Kindergarten this year, I began to realize more and more how much she is growing up on me...this makes me sad. It also makes me savor every single minute I get to spend with her. So a snow day is like an entire extra day has been given to me to spend with her. Now I know she will have a make-up day at school, but there is something about the surprise of no school and cancelling the rest of the world to specifically play that makes it different. A friend and I always talk about wishing we had a pause button for life so these days with our little ones will stay forever...I wanted a pause button on Wednesday! Here is what a snow day at the Raines' house looks like...

A little gator golf,

some Lincoln logs,

Aiden supervising the construction,

leftover soup from dinner the night before for lunch, perfect for the chilly day,

doing some baking (she's mashing banana if you can't tell),

Aiden will actually participate in the baking now, look how proud he looks that he added the cinnamon :)

Then he got bored, retrieved the chocolate syrup from the fridge and wanted to fill the bowl with that,

Alyssa reading a book for Aiden's "bedtime" in the middle of the day,

watching the snow fall, and oh did it fall and it was beautiful!

crawling through the tent we made,

Aiden's turn

Here is the tent...and Aiden taking part of it with him on his head. We took in a pile of books and read in there for a (long) while,

And what would a snow day be without Candyland??

I LOVE snow days!!!