just another morning here

Not a terribly interesting weekend in our house, really.

Orchestra doesn’t start until next Saturday, so I took the opportunity to go to the meeting of the chorister parents’ association on Saturday morning while Josiah was at rehearsals.

After that we came home to find that Steve and the girls had only just surfaced, lazy things! Joe did some piano and tidied his room before his friend came round to play. The girls took practically all day to tidy their room!

Music practices were noisy … Abbie drumming along to Greenday upstairs while Anna accompanied Josiah downstairs, then Anna went up to accompany Abbie’s flute … and that was only before the outing to the sweet shop! They finished off afterwards, and had tea, before settling down to an evening of crafty stuff while Steve and I went out for our anniversary dinner at the Conservatory

On Sunday we woke to more snow falling, and had to be up early for Josiah to go and sing. The girls thought they had a sound rehearsal at Panto but in fact it was just a setting up day and they didn’t have to be there, so they went over to visit Grandma and Grandpa instead. Anna wanted to discuss Professor Layton puzzles with Grandma!

Steve and I decided to go out for a walk in the snow, geocache involved of course! We popped in for coffee with Neil & Ivonne, which was lovely. Then picked the boys up from the Cathedral (we share lifts with another family!), back home to drop one boy off and let the other one get changed, then back to Grandma & Grandpa’s for lunch. Stew and dumplings – the perfect cold day dinner! The kids had a fab time in the snow in their garden, too

Home for music practices (all three children are trying to do 100 days of practise on all instruments, which *is* a bit of a logistical nightmare at times!); Abbie played with Mollie and another panto friend who was round, the girls shopped on the Boden sale website, and then later on we snuggled up with nibbly pic’n'mix tea in front of a film.

Somehow the snow just makes being inside together feel lovelier than usual, it’s been fab

Finally. Wintery or Wintry? Which is correct and why?! Been dithering between which to title the post with and now they both look odd …

Had loads of fun out with Abbie’s panto friends this morning. Poor old Anna had to go to school, but she had Bugsy rehearsals all day so she didn’t mind too much. Her music audition was cancelled but has been re-scheduled for tomorrow … and we’re all back to school tomorrow, too. Could be fun on the lane that leads to my school but I’ll be walking so I’ll be fine!

Snow days are always welcome in my house, as long as *I* get the day off as well! Today we weren’t sure which of our schools were going to close or not, so the kids went out in the close really early just in case they’d have to go to school later!

As it happened, they didn’t; we were all at home. Josiah played for ages with friends in the close, while Abbie joined with other friends and was out and about between houses and the park all day, nearly. Anna did go out, but then was mainly at home working for most of the day. I did very little, I confess! Some orchestra work, a bit of housework, helped Steve bring a car home, but that was about it.

Most of us are off again tomorrow, despite the fact that roads in the city seem mainly ok! Having said that, I didn’t go to housegroup tonight because I didn’t want to drive on the icy roads in the dark at night. Anyway, we’ll see what another day off brings …

… and the hill wasn’t particularly steep either – but we had fun in any case, despite being very cold and wet! I’m on my second Snow Day (off school) this week, and the kids are all happy to have joined me today as well

Home and warming up again by 10am, watching the snow fall outside, but it’s not settling any more. Having caused havoc around here overnight, it’s now just wet and slushy.