Snow!

Snow days are a big perk of working in education. Today was our first one of this school year. Sam's been asking us to read one of his books, "Snow," to him a lot lately, so he enjoyed watching it out the window today. This afternoon, he pulled on my sleeve and said "go play outside," which actually sounds more like "go pay a-sy," so we bundled him up and he went outside in the snow while Ben shoveled and I swept the front porch off. He wasn't too sure about it at first, but once he saw a job to do, he started to like it. He grabbed the broom once I was finished with it and started sweeping snow. He even told me "I like it." The best was when Ben started spreading salt on the sidewalk; Sam stepped right in and started helping out, sprinkling salt wherever Ben would drop it. I got it on video. Sometimes I feel like the family AV person.

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We like to put this boy to work!