Indoors or Out

We’ve had some crazy weather recently.  Some days the temperature has been above zero but within days it is back to a frigid -30C. We’ve even had days where my sheltered back yard has been whipped by wind.

This weather has resulted in the daily dilemma — ‘Should we stay indoors or go out to play?’  Actually, the question really is how long we should stay out since only once have I decided we should not go out at all.  Some days we’ve only been outside for 10 or 15 minutes but usually it is much longer.

The cats seem to think they’d like to go out;

 

But that’s really only because they want the neighbours ‘pets’;

 

When the children and I are inside we work on projects like these sun catchers;

 

  

  

Outdoors we’ve made cakes;

 

 

I love the ‘fire’ that the children make — they sit here to ‘warm up’

 

Their biggest complaint is the lack of snow.  They spend a great deal of time relocating the little snow we do have to the area of the yard they want to play in;

 

 

Indoors or out — working together and having fun.