D - Snow! - Take 2

In case you've been dying to know whether or not I played with my kids during the second snow week, the answer is "uh-uh."  I was all set mentally to make it happen, but it turns out one good week of playing in the snow is pretty much all they are interested in.  The second time around, they were perfectly content to stay in the house, play wii games together, watch movies and do school-project crafts.  Yay for me!  They actually never even asked to go outside.

But as things began to melt and we began to go stir crazy, we left the house and stopped off at Lowe's to buy one of those elusive snow shovels that they were out of before the snow fell.  Noah and I decided that it would be awesome for him to shovel the driveway of our neighbor across the street.  She's single and had just been driving on it as it was.  Since Noah is working on his LTC Service Challenge, we've really been focusing on how serving others is such a big part of what God calls us to do.

So......off he (and Katie) went to do the job.

I was really proud of them.  They did the whole thing without complaining.  Actually, that part isn't true.  Noah had to do a little complaining because Katie would shovel some snow and throw it behind her on the driveway, so he would then have to pick up what she had just done.  She said it took too long to walk all the way over to the grass to dump it.  :)

And, as it turns out, this project wasn't just an act of kindness.  Because our nice neighbor caught Noah out there, she gave him a $25 gift certificate to take his family out for pizza at Old Chicago.  Huh?  Where else can I drop them off to do some work out of the goodness of their lucrative little hearts?