Snow Day(s)!

Here are our snow days by the numbers:

• Number of days in which it has snowed since last Monday - 3
• Number of inches of snow in our yard - 14
• Number of very excited boys - 2
• Number of trips to scavenge bread from barren grocery store shelves - 1 (1 loaf found at the back of the bottom shelf)
• Number of days of missed/early released school since last Tuesday - 4
• Number that were actually necessary - 3 (and I'm being generous about that early release on Wednesday!)
• Number of cookies baked - 36
• Number of cookies remaining in the house - 0
• Number of huge bowls of popcorn eaten - 2
• Number of trips outside to play - untold
• Number of hours spent getting boys into snow clothes - infinite
• Number of snowmen attempted - 2
• Number of snowmen built from the fine powder - 0
• Number of huge snow piles made - 5 (2 by the boys, 3 by Chris and our tenant in digging the cars / driveway out, and 1 two-foot pile all the way down the street made by the town as they plowed )
• Trips down said hills on the saucer sleds - many!
• Number of adults ready to get back on schedule - 2