Seriously?!

Ok, let me preface this post with the fact that I am originally from Utah where it snows a lot. Now I live in Tennessee where it obviously doesn't. Last Friday is was forecasted to sleet and snow, so Thursday night, before a snowflake had fallen, we got a call from the school district saying that school was cancelled on Friday. When we woke up, still no snow. Later in the morning it started to snow and snowed all day. That night we had freezing rain which basically turned all the snow to ice. When we woke up Saturday morning and walked outside, we could walk on top of the snow without sinking or leaving a footprint. It was amazing! The kids had the best time sledding. Fortunately I was finally able to find a couple of sleds a few days before the snow came. We have a big hill at the front of our neighborhood where we took the kids to sled and boy did they fly down that hill! It was slick and I was grateful that it was Saturday so that Adam wouldn't have to worry about going to work. We even let the kids sled in our yard on Sunday, which we normally wouldn't do in keeping with the Sabbath day, but we figured that it would be melted soon and they wouldn't get another chance. Apparently it hasn't snowed like this for about 6 years or so. Anyway, church was cancelled so we had our own little 'church' and then let the kids so sledding. They discovered, because of the icey crust on the snow, that they could start at the top our neighbor's steep driveway, who lives behind us, and sled all the way across their backyard, into and through our backyard, steer quickly (avoiding trees and things) and go past our house into our front yard and across the street! That's probably a couple of acres! It was so much fun to watch (from inside the warm house)!!

We got a call again last night saying that school was cancelled again today (Monday), even though the snow is melting and the main roads are pretty much clear. The kids went outside and did a little more sledding, but the frozen crust has started to melt away and so it's not quite so slick - they can't go quite as far, but they still had fun. I've enjoyed having them home and we've had a nice long, relaxing weekend.

Well, tonight we got another call saying that they won't be having school again tomorrow!!! I'm totally amazed! I know that they don't have all the equipment to remove the snow off of all the roads and stuff, but good grief, Walmart was packed today! People are shopping and going to work, but our kids can't go to school? Don't get me wrong, I love sleeping in with my kids and hanging out with them, but I'm wondering when they're going to make all this time up. I sure hope they don't have to go longer at the end of the year.

Anyway, like I said in the beginning, I'm from Utah so it seems a little too cautious for me, but that's ok, I still LOVE Tennessee! :) Here are some fun snow picures: