There’s the sound of the gigantic ice chunks falling from my roof. Crash!

There’s the sound of me groaning from having shoveled out the cars. Moan!

There’s the quiet tap, click, clicking of the girls upstairs playing our new obsession, Plants Versus Zombies, which is extremely addictive and very fun. Don’t start! You’ll get hooked! But if you start, you can talk Pea Shooters and SunShrooms and Melon ‘Pults with us anytime you want. Oi. Too fun.

There’s the cursing sounds of people slipping on icy steps, too.

So all these sounds are why it’s been so darn quiet around here.

Here in Philadelphia we are still digging out from the biggest snows, like, ever. Apparently, the warmer air holds more moisture, and more moisture means bigger storms. Bigger hurricanes for part of the country and bigger snows for others. There will likely be bigger droughts, and bigger rainstorms.  Who knew that “global warming” would mean blizzards that shut a city down for a week?

We had school a week ago, Tuesday, but otherwise it’s been snow days. And today is of course a holiday. My kids and I have had a lot of fun. Rather than write endlessly, I am posting some pictures. Each one is worth, well you know how much a picture is worth!