Inclement Weather

Not us, it was really cold this morning, but I can't complain. We made our weekly trip to Walmart for groceries pretty quickly.
I have been reading everyone's blog and comments on Facebook and I can't believe what you guys back in Oregon are dealing with. I can't ever remember it snowing that much. The last time we had to deal with it was during Fiona's steroid phase in January of 2007. We got snowed in and she desperately needed shrimp. I think only someone who has ever been on steroids or pregnant would truly understand. At that time my sister had a Tahoe and was able to come over and take her to Albertsons. Now that same sister is almost 9 months pregnant and no longer has the Tahoe and is further from bigger civilization. (my little brother promised to come and get her in his work truck should she go into labor. My other sister with 4 wheel drive ventured out today and got rear-ended by a police officer).
Anyway, I was despairing at the thought of the girls home for the next two weeks, even with being able to go places and do things. So I started coming up with things for them to do (besides all of the chores I can't do). I thought I would share some with you that you might be able to do at home with your kids, without having to go out for supplies, which we all know isn't happening.
Go here for a ton of easily printed templates for beautiful snowflakes. Not that you guys necessarily need them, but it will give little bored hands something to do for a while. Then they can spend a little more time vacuuming up after themselves.
Go here for the recipe for those cinnamon applesauce ornaments. When they are dry, I plan on the girls gluing different kinds of glitter on them.
We are also going to play spa party. I got a $5 can from Walmart that even has nail art in it. This might not be the best thing for you with boys.
We are going to see The Tales of Despereaux. We have buy one get one free coupons and I might ask some of our local friends to come with us.
You Tube is awesome for finding old Christmas cartoons to watch.
The girls from our Young Womens' group lip synced this at our Christmas party and Fiona could and has just sat and watched it several times in a row. We also get them off the Boomerang channel. We watched Christmas in Pacland, who knew.
I also managed to get some of those Costco Willy Wonka gingerbread house kits, which will be great for a few hours of silence. You can make some frosting and use graham crackers and just let them have at it.

Our dollar store had felt Christmas stocking kits, but you can always use construction paper. Boy, they always tell you to have your food storage ready for times like these, but you should also have entertaining the kids kits available too, huh? We had that problem after Hurricane Ike.

Hopefully Santa will bring plenty of entertainment and you won't lose power.