Who knew walking to the bus could be dangerous?

I woke up this morning and seriously thought that school would be cancelled. Any idiot could see that having a thick layer of ice on every stretch of concrete did not make transportation easy, right? No such luck. The school district made the decision to hold school two hours late, which normally makes sense, but not today. The ice has no hope of melting today because it has only gotten colder throughout the day and it's expected to get colder instead of warmer. I can't even get my van out of the driveway right now because there is too much ice. Even if I could, there's no way I could get it down the hill without having to use houses for brakes. Since the kids have perfect attendance so far you gotta do what you gotta do, so off we trudged down the hill to the bus. If you look closely you'll see Nate falling in the background (in the middle of the street!). We pretty much had to skate down the hill on a solid sheet of ice. Since cars were doing the same thing all around us, it was a scary experience!

When we got the bus stop, the kids played hockey with a nice sized snowball that Nicole created just for the occasion.


Of course, they spent more time laying on the ice than actually moving the snowball around, but I never said that my kids were awesome hockey players, did I?

Nate was his usual goofy self and spent more time laying on the ice than actually playing. He enjoyed trying to figure out how thick the ice was, how much it would take to break the ice, and how fast he could run before he fell down (not very fast right now!).

Amanda was content to just stand with me and wait for the bus, making sure to look cute for pictures. That's my princess!

They made it on the bus safe and sound and I'm assuming all the way to school since I haven't heard any different. I'm stuck at home trying to reclaim the house from the weekend of being stuck inside. I've got Christmas gifts to wrap, pictures to go through, a house to clean, several loads of laundry to finish, and toys to muddle through. I've definitely got enough to do to keep me busy for more than the week I'll be stuck here.

I'm not even going to think about having to trudge back down the hill in three hours to pick the girls up...