snow day

So there is (are?) two feet of snow on the ground today. Beautiful, light, fluffy, pure white snow. Millions and billions and trillions of perfectly beautiful and unique snowflakes. Everywhere. Lots of snowflakes. In every place I look. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stifling snow, overwhelming and drowning everything in sight.

I think I might be losing my enthusiasm about how much snow we have. Because really, what do you do with all this snow when your kids are so little? I've been intending to take them for a sled ride for oh, a month at least. But the idea of bundling them up and walking outside and having to pull the sled around for fifteen minutes with my already-aching arms (have I mentioned that Abraham weighs almost 25 pounds, can't crawl yet, and makes my shoulders ache continually?) just somehow doesn't appeal to me enough to actually make it happen. But at the end of every day, I wish just a little bit more that I had done it anyway, because even though the kids are pretty happy, I am feeling pretty cabin-feverish.

Um, is it spring yet?

So anyway, today I am printing coupons. I am not really a big coupon user, although I do use them whenever I buy things online and every time Costco has coupons and whenever there are good ones at Fred Meyer. (Okay, so I guess I am a part-time coupon user.) But I was planning to go grocery shopping today and since we are more or less snowed in and since my grocery list just keeps getting longer and longer, I guess I am just restless enough to finally sit down and find every last organic-brand coupon that I can find. Or at least as many as I can find before the kids wake up and we play with snow again.

Because I did find one fun solution to the whole surrounded-by-snow-and-permanently-stuck-in-the-house thing. I've started bringing it inside one pan at a time and letting the kids play with it on the kitchen floor. It actually hasn't been more of a mess than one dish towel can handle, and Rilla has been totally enthralled by making snowball soup by scooping measuring spoons full of snow into the crock-pot. Abraham sits nearby, banging a spoon on a pan and just generally being pleased that his sister is sitting so close to him for such a long stretch of time. (He really loves her, but she moves faster than he does, so as soon as he gets settled in one place, she is off doing something else.)

All of that to say... what do you do when you are stuck indoors? We are going to go to the library in a little while and stock up on some new reading materials, so that will give us a bit of a boost, but I think my imagination is frozen along with everything outdoors. I can't seem to think of anything else creative to do. Any suggestions?