Matt, Stacey, and Ben Uhrig

So - you would think that we would be super duper excited for our first snow day of the year with Ben.....

However - Ben has been sick since Friday (last week) with a fever and cold. So, he was in no mood to hang out in the freezing cold...bummer!!!

The snow wasn't so much the issue in our neck of the woods as much as ice and sleet were...so - Matt decided to work from home. Great! Idealistically you think, snow - cold, hot chocolate, puzzles, and all out fun....but that was not the reality in our household yesterday...

Here is how it went down....

Matt working at the kitchen table on the lap top modeling out extensive excel spreadsheets (note - he says his day was very productive!), Ben running around like a chicken in a coop, nose running, going stir crazy, not wanting to play outside but clearly sick of being inside, Mommy wiping Ben's runny nose (about 10000 times), making soup (aka clearing out the refrigerator), cleaning the kitchen, checking email, wiping ben's nose some more, waiting desparetely for Ben to crash and nap so I can get a good 2 hours of work in....

Uhrig's Law
1. When it snows - our child doesn't want to play outside because he is sick
2. When mom wants to work - our child didn't take a nap.....
3. When everyone was just getting back on the mend - mom's herniated disc starts to flare up...

So instead of my romantic view of a cool snow day - it was more of a running around, praying for a nap, checking email (on the sly) kind of day....

Oh - speaking of romantic - wasn't it valentines too ;-)????

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