The please-dear-God-not-tomorrow-snow came. According to Grace's princess ruler, we got 5 inches. We dug the inflatable hazard out of the shed and spent the morning trying to find ways to get air in the thing faster...in the end, the leaf blower brought the thing to life. I should be shot for this. Think very big inner tube with handles. We live on a steep hill with a concrete storm drain at the bottom - a previous ender to snow fun (click here). I managed to convince Scott to stay home from work so that would employ the "one parent sled with child/one parent place body between sled and hazard" approach. I should take this moment to point out that Scott was raised in the south - the deep south - outside of the annual church ski trip, he has seen snow maybe six times. My efforts to keep him home were equal parts desire for family fun and need to keep him away from heavy machinery until the roads were clear.
We had a great time. The kids from up the street came down to take their turn at Mickey Mouse's newest attraction, SNOW MOUNTAIN. Grace wanted to run in and get props to theme up the queue but we managed to talk her out of it...but she did come up with theme music and tried to sing it to the kids as they waited for their turn. 
(clearly daddy needed a snow day as much as the kids!)