Snow Days, Snow Days

Like never before, or at least I have heard, North Texas was hit with a winter storm that left most of us huddling inside our homes for the good part of a week just trying to stay warm.  I personally, was fine with this and totally enjoyed our unexpected week at home. There is nothing like being "snowed in" for an entire week with a 2 year old to get your creative juices flowing.

We could not really go out and enjoy the weather, the first few days were bitterly cold and really icy outside, so I did not feel that it was in our best interest to venture outside. The last day of our snow vacation, it really did snow, 3-4 inches to be exact, so we did venture outside for about 10 minutes to enjoy some of the white stuff, but it didn't last long due to the freezing temperatures!!



Reagan and I had a really fun time this week with nothing else to do than snuggle and watch movies, take long warm baths and read tons and tons of books. But a week long unexpected vacation makes you come up with other things to do for pure entertainment and fun!!!

So, that is what we did.

We made ice paint, which was really fun and easy to do. We filled little silicone baking cups with half paint and half water and froze them. (You were really supposed to use an ice tray, but apparently, I don't own an ice tray, so we compromised). After the paint and water is frozen, you have what you call ice paint, and its really fun to paint with while exploring the sensation of "cold!!" That is what Reagan said the whole time "its cold, its cold!"





Then we made salt dough, which was an interesting experience. I just found a recipe online for it.You just mix a cup of salt (finely ground), and  a cup of flour together. I let Reagan mix them together and stir it up. Then you are SUPPOSED to add water, but for whatever reason, Reagan WOULD NOT LET ME add water to her flour and salt mixture. She enjoyed mixing it and playing in it. So, I made another batch, and added a half a cup of water to mine and kneaded it until it became a dough!! We rolled it out with a rolling pin and used a heart cookie cutter to cut out hearts in our dough. We then baked them and waited for them to cool.



We then painted them, and made them into pretty little Valentine ornaments for our family!!!



We really did have a wonderful time together at home.  What a unexpected blessing it was to literally not leave the house for 4 days straight with no agendas or things that had to be done. Life stood still for a few days and we could really enjoy just being lazy and all the snuggling that went with it!! Thank you Lord for the ice and snow!!!!!