Manifesto Day Five: Live Fort-abulously
Sometimes getting away is the best way to beat the winter blahs-- but no one ever said you actually have to leave to do that...
My boys are professional snow fort makers. Um, okay, their dad is a professional snowfort maker (he has even figured out how to blow all the snow from our driveway strategically for tower-building usages). I mean, just look at this thing:
It provides hours of entertainment-- from the sneak attacks on mom's car
(notice Max in his best "look out" pose?)
to the slides and seats, snowball storage and stairways they build into these enormoushouses fortresses of ice. And when they clamor inside, flopping wet gloves and boots in the mudroom and chattering up a storm, there is no better way to keep that sense of being somewhere else going like making a fort....on the inside.
Cheeks still flushed red from the biting February air, the boys will set to work gathering pillows and blankets, moving chairs and generally destroying my living room.
I love it.
Just last week, we made pizza, built a fire, and curled into the fort to watch a movie. We slept there (okay, I admit, when the baby got up for the upmteenth time, I made a dash for my bed) and played all morning beneath the bat-filled sky, er, batman sheets.
My boys are professional snow fort makers. Um, okay, their dad is a professional snowfort maker (he has even figured out how to blow all the snow from our driveway strategically for tower-building usages). I mean, just look at this thing:
It provides hours of entertainment-- from the sneak attacks on mom's car
(notice Max in his best "look out" pose?)
to the slides and seats, snowball storage and stairways they build into these enormous
Cheeks still flushed red from the biting February air, the boys will set to work gathering pillows and blankets, moving chairs and generally destroying my living room.
I love it.
Just last week, we made pizza, built a fire, and curled into the fort to watch a movie. We slept there (okay, I admit, when the baby got up for the upmteenth time, I made a dash for my bed) and played all morning beneath the bat-filled sky, er, batman sheets.
4 Comments
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Comment by edward on February 18, 2009 at 9:37pm - the batman fort looks to be quite a bit less work than the snow forts. great photos, thanks for sharing.
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Comment by Leonard on February 21, 2009 at 8:56am - Well, through this series of things to do during the February blahs, it just doesn't seem to be that bad. Actually makes one think of how lucky we areto be able to do these things in beautiful northern Michigan. Keep up pointing out different things to remind of just how lucky we are, thank you.
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Comment by Sus on February 24, 2009 at 8:54am - isn't it funny that for boys, it's a fortress, and for girls, it's a house? Frannie would be dividing that snow castle into rooms with lovely flow and, perhaps, some window treatments? Wait, I might be doing the window treatment part. :) Oh, I love a good fort.
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Comment by PKS on March 2, 2009 at 11:30pm - Snow forts to indoor forts, you have a busy household. We all loved reading your ingenious ways to pass the month of February! Now it's March and it came in like a lion, hope it leaves like a lamb! Ideas for the lion side please!
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