Snow day!

by on February 24, 2010 · 4 comments

I love living in Texas!!  If you don’t live here, you should. If you do live in Texas but not in Kerrville, you should move here.  If you haven’t lived in the city your whole life you probably won’t appreciate the beauty of Kerrville like I do.

Sunday it was near 70 degrees and sunny. G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S.

Tuesday (yesterday) I don’t think it reached 36 degrees.  And it was snowing. All day.

Today it was sunny and in the upper 50s (I think. It was warm.)

It’s a good thing we homeschool year round. I mean if it’s snowing we certainly can’t have school- although we did drive to the church and sharpen all the pew pencils.  And when it’s sunny and “warm” we have to go for a country drive- and get way off track and end up taking a 20 minute detour!

Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to homeschool and have my husband work from home!

Here are some pictures from our little snow day.

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