snow day

After six inches of snow yesterday, and freezing rain all night, our power went off at nine this morning.  We have electric heat, and I refuse to get a kerosene heater (because mobile homes are, essentially, firetraps), so I brought the kids over to Mom’s.  Her power was out as well, but she had a roaring fire going in the fireplace so we were toasty in no time.  The power came on briefly and went back out a few times before finally coming back on (and hopefully staying that way!) about a half hour ago. 

I’ve got a 2 hour Dora DVD in the player, hoping it will help Chloe drift off into a second nap  She didn’t sleep very well with the power out – it was far too silent, and every little noise disturbed her.  Ben’s also asleep right now, and if he goes back to sleep after his next feeding I’ll be bundling up and heading out with the camera.  In the meantime, I got these shots from Mom’s front porch: