There are No Snow Days in Homeschool

Just like there is no crying in baseball, there are no snow days in homeschool. Today in Peculiar, MO it's in the 20s and icy and windy and snowing. Schools are cancelling further north ("in town") and the huge trash company called it quits for the day. My eye doctor's office closed for the day, so my son and I will reschedule. I wasn't going to go anyway ... my huge van doesn't do so well on icy roads. I miss my front-wheel drive minivan sometimes. My husband works a good half hour from home, and I wonder how long it will take him to drive home in this weather.

And the educating goes on. It looks like this inside my house when it's a crummy day outside:

My oldest made pancakes!

Fancy hot chocolate mixes from a gift basket from my mom for Christmas

Eva loves extra time by the fire to play LOL dolls, Shopkins, Num Noms

Michael and Sam hanging out during reading time by the fire

This is Crash Course on YouTube (free) and is hosted by John Green (Fault in Our Stars author and hilarious). I love when I introduce the kids to something and they don't hate it but instead ask to watch more! Today we watched 3 videos on the Agricultural Revolution (World History)

KHAN ACADEMY for math (sorry, no picture of this)

Michael is our resident artist for sure. He just sits down and starts doodling stuff like this

Michael was trying to be funny when he drew this "self-portrait" of his brother Sam

Callie making chocolate chip cookies for science, math and life skills and tossed in some white chocolate  morsels and some mini marshmallows.

Yes, if it snows REALLY good sometime, we are taking the day off to sled for sure. Sledding looks a little different now that we have moved to the country and 8 acres of land. We hook up two sleds behind the mower, make sure the blade is up so we are not mowing snow, and off they go.

If you homeschool, and your local brick-and-mortar schools close, do you also take the day off? Do you think it's more laid-back to take a snow day or to continue life as normal, in your usual laid-back fashion, seeking some sort of continuity after the long Christmas break?