Snow Day

After finishing some math and grammar, I officially called the school day off on account of snow. We must have gotten about a foot of it yesterday.

And unfortunately, it wasn't a let's-go-out-and-sled kind of a snow day, but more of a if-mom-doesn't-shovel-the-driveway-we're-trapped-in-our-house kind of a snow day.

Definitely not as fun. This is one of those moments when I really wish that I had a husband here to do the dirty work. :)

So, I put Tori down for a nap, put a movie in for Nick and left Ellie in charge. I bundled up and grabbed my flimsy plastic snow shovel and got down to business.

My driveway isn't super-long, but it's not short either. You could probably park 3 or 4 cars in a row and it's the width of a 2 car garage. I never use one side of the driveway since I don't use Andy's vehicle while he's gone. The snow had drifted to that side and was seriously up to my mid-thigh.

Here it is about halfway done. Notice I had the garbage out? While I was shoveling they called to tell me that they couldn't pick it up this week....

Oh, was I in for a workout. I was out there shoveling for 3 1/2 hours without a break. Ellie was nice enough to bring me some hot cocoa - although I had to beg her for some water instead since I was sweating so much! I wasn't a bit cold, that's for sure. It was funny though, because each time I would go to take a sip of my water, it would be frozen over.

Lexie came out for a while to visit me, but went in since it wasn't very exciting.

Lexie, admiring the pile :)

I could have cried when the snow plow came by and dumped even more snow for me to shovel. I kept thinking, how hard would it be for him to turn into my driveway for a sec and clear it for me? Really? He just passed me by...

So, I cleared the majority of the new snow off, but was left with about 4 inches of ice. I began chipping away at it, and couldn't help but think how ironic it was that we were studying glaciers and icebergs yesterday and here I was chipping mini icebergs off of my glacial driveway. :)

Glacial chunks coming off of my driveway. See my trusty shovel in the background? I'm surprised it didn't break.

It started coming off in huge chunks, but I was ready to go inside at this point. So, here I am, about to hop in a hot shower. It hasn't even been an hour and the soreness is starting to set in. I predict that I can't even move when I wake up in the morning....

I had better not be too sore though, because my deck is the next project:

Notice that there isn't any snow on the railing? It got too deep and fell off.