.....and the snow begins

We awoke to a good covering of snow and it continued all day and into the night.

Today was the first day of full snow clothes for the boys. Snow Pants, Gloves, Hat, Scarf, Coat. Small wanted to go out in his trainers! Of course they had to have a snowball fight before school as it was packing snow (their favourite!).

Huffle worked from home (not his normal day but because of the snow, he chose to). I got out of his way and went to Suffolks house where we then went on to Fabricland, a sewing shop, lunch and then back to hers for a cup of tea.

On the way home I picked up the Cooker Hood we ordered and came home. The boys were already home and had put their wet things in the drier without telling anyone (which they later needed for their walk) and were just clearing their rooms before having a play on the IPads.

They did their piano lessons (plenty of Christmas tunes being learned now), had dinner and then got ready to go on their night hike with Beavers and Scouts. The forecast said it was going to feel like -16 and it was still snowing quite heavily. Luckily I had found the wet things and dried them. Smallest put on his Snow Pants and THEN informed us that the zip had broken (at which point there was not a lot we could do about it right then) and also informed us (though a bit earlier) that he had lost his gloves - first day of wearing them to school and lost already. What are we supposed to do? Huffle wants to staple them to his hands but I wondered about the old elastic through the coat idea like we did when they were toddlers! We found him another pair of gloves and a pair of Small's snow pants which we rolled up and secured over his shoulders! He also borrowed Small's head lamp and was told not to take his gloves off and not to lose Small's lamp. Small was given strict instructions to keep an eye on Smallest as it was dark and they were going in the forest. You would hope that the leaders might take care of them but an extra eye doesn't hurt!

They came back very wet, cold and tired and went straight to bed. Huffle and I watched I'm a Celebrity Get me out of here.

 

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