Educating Risa

Today was one of those days kids love—and apart from having to shovel the driveway, it was pretty fun for us adults too. We woke to a winter wonderland with a good dump of snow overnight; the sun came out; and it wasn’t too cold, just a few degrees below freezing. Finally, perfect tobogganing weather! The boys were so excited! So after a lovely brunch of pancakes, soysage and fruit that Jim made, off we headed to the local toboggan hill, about a 5 minute walk from our house. It’s HUGE—sort of a big bowl, the grounds surrounding a local school. We weren’t the only family with this idea on a lazy Sunday!

The boys had such a good time sledding, and it tuckered them out. They must have gone up and down that hill 30 times, at least!

I posted a few videos on facebook. Let’s see if embedding them here works.

 

We then headed home, with the boys playing in some deep snowdrifts on the way.

They also found some giant snowballs that they insisted on bringing home, because, well…I guess our yard didn’t have enough snow.

When we got home a rosy-cheeked Daegan relaxed on the couch reading Far Side cartoons:

While Gareth made us all some of his special hot chocolate recipe. He wrote it out himself the other day:

We even had vegan whipped cream on hand to add on top. Yum!

Yup. A great day!