The snowy days of winter finally

Well it has not been very snowy before, kinda of rainy weather which is so strange this time of year, but we got some good dumping of snow recently. So we enjoyed a snow delay of school and 2 snow days. The thing is that the snow is still here...a week later nothing has melted just kinda dirty. So this is the difference, the snow doesn't come one day melt the next like it does in Colorado or so warm you can go without a coat. Yes our driveway still has ice and snow all over it, we did PAY the neighbors snow blower guy to dig out our mailbox because they seriously wouldn't deliver if it was not done properly. Crazy it was a pile of ice from the snow plow for the road and it wouldn't budge. So we had total of 6 days off of school due to the Presidents day weekend and the snow days we played in the snow 4 of those 6 days we sledded and went to a "hill" at a friends and tried to build a fort. Okay so we enjoyed it I'm ready for it to melt now. The icicles are really huge the kids want to know how to get them off of the tall tall house. Hope just asked if we could ask the neighbors for some of theirs they touch the ground! So we anxiously await the meltdown!