Snowmaggedon

This Boise winter has been dubbed by some as Snowmaggedon 2017. I think it's the most snow Boise has seen in over 30 years. It has been snowing on and off all week. It's not tons of snow for Salt Lake maybe but its TONS of snow for Boise and the city of totally ill prepared for it. Most of the neighborhood streets aren't even being plowed. Our neighbors went out with shovels and shoveled out a pathway in our street so cars could get out. The main roads are okay it's just a matter of getting to them. The kids didn't have school on Monday for Christmas break, they went to school on Tuesday and then school was canceled for the rest of the week! Crazy! We mostly just hunkered down and stayed home. The snow is really dry so it's not good for building snowmen but Scott managed to help the kids build a killer igloo. There is room for probably all four kids at once in there.

I was supposed to try to hard core potty train Ryan last week. I did pretty good on Monday of following him around constantly and Tuesday too but then I just couldn't keep caring as much any more. He's still in underwear and he's at the point he's always at when I've tried to train him, he can stay mostly dry, he won't poop in the toilet and he wakes up wet. I'm hoping school is not canceled tomorrow and I bought some more drinks and I want to try doing a few more hard core days. It's January and we have no plans forever so I think we will just stick it out and hope he can get it all the way. FINGERS CROSSED. Seriously potty training is the WORST.

I did venture out and go to book club on Thursday night. I had to shovel my way from my driveway to the path on our street to get out. I also went grocery shopping yesterday morning before another storm hit. Other than that we have been homeward bound. The snow is beautiful. I am thoroughly enjoying it. It's supposed to rain later this week. Yuck, that will make it so ugly.

I'm trying to lay down and take a nap. Ha.

I decided to help the kids try to build a fort. It was so much better in my head. Ha.

My kids do not go outside and play in the snow unless I go out too. UGH. Ha. I don't really like to play but I don't mind shoveling while they play. Shoveling snow was my only workout last week but I did that a lot and so did Scott. There was so much to shovel for real!

Snow cave

I love these bar stools but they were falling apart. We bought them from IKEA 9 years ago and I can't believe they survived this long. Our kids dropped them on the ground 1,000 times. Scott has glued and re glued them so many times. I had two parties last week and I was pretty embarrassed having anyone actually sitting on them. I decided new bar stools for Christmas was in order. I put them on Facebook for free and someone came and picked them up in about 30 minutes. I was too embarrassed to charge any money for them but I was happy that someone wanted them since I spent so many hours painting them. 

We got these cute stools on Amazon for a screaming deal. I like the old ones better because they are bigger and take up more space in the kitchen. I like how I could see the pop of red while I was doing my dishes but these are cute and not falling apart. 

So much snow!