Ideas to ruin snow days for the kids

My kids are lucky. They don't get snow days here in Bozeman, Montana. When it snows, no matter how many inches (24 inches last year in one day), school remains open. It's up to me and Joe to get them to school in a timely manner. It makes life here that much more fun.

You think I'm crazy to say that my kids are lucky not to have snow days. In the rare occasion they would ever get to stay home because a blizzard came to town (and that would have to be one hell of a blizzard by Montana standards), I have a list of ways to entertain the kiddos. Based on this list, I'm sure they would enjoy to spend a fun-filled day home with Joe and I.

• Organize the sock drawer by "small holes," "big holes," and "used to be white."
• Look for that missing puzzle piece.
• Actually search out the location of the Missing Sock Abyss
• Paint the cat's nails bright neon orange 
• Dress up as a snowman and go door to door asking for a cup of hot cocoa and then run away screaming, "I'm melting!"
• Make a mosaic using thumb tacks
• Play "1000 dust bunny pick up"
• Work on long, complicated calculus problems for hours on end. Fun for the whole family!
• Listen to daddy read aloud from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (theology book written a long time ago).
• No TV except to watch Bonanza reruns dubbed in Russian
• Only game they can play is Pong on a small black and white TV

Now, some of these things sound like of fun.

I always wanted to watch Bonanza in Russian.









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