After a surprisingly pleasant day home yesterday, the boys and I were all ready to go back to our routines today. At first, Brendan and Andrew were not convinced that being at school would be more fun than staying home, but then I reminded them that our schools are in the situation where every additional day off will require us all to report an additional day at the end of the school year. Then, their enthusiasm for staying home waned.
This morning at 5 am, I crept into the basement to check the school listings to see if we were on the list. While waiting for the list of hundreds of schools-- yes, I am exaggerating-- to circle through, I hear the weather man say that today is simply, "Stupid cold." Hmm. . . I had never heard a weather man say that before.
Today is just plain stupid cold. Looking at the current temperatures, you can see that we are varying from 15-24 below zero for standard air temps with wind chills ranging to 45 below zero.
My weather man woke me up quickly to this solemn news. And yes, shortly after, I saw both the boys' and my school were closing for the day. Ultimately this means that all of us will get out of school two days later than planned. Instead, we are blessed with house confinement out of fear of freezing.
Yet, I don't think I am intimidated today. I have graded all the papers I brought home, so we are trudging back to my school today for me to gather another load of work. Then, I plan to treat the boys to a lunch out following by a quick trip to the library, looking for something fun to watch.
I plan to stop my maniacal grading this afternoon for some good old-fashioned bonding with my boys. Maybe we will make cookies, maybe we will watch a movie, but today, I am earnestly excited to just "hang out."
Nonetheless, I will be ready to go back to work Monday. Let's hope Mother Nature cooperates.
2 comments:
Good for you! See you can be productive and the "fun" mom at the same time! We've had 2 back to back days of 2 hour delays. Doesn't seem like much, but it does throw my day out of whack. I thought we were cold here - you're right, hell froze over in WI!!! Stay toasty! :)
I am glad to hear you are ok with being off today and good job with grading those papers. Have fun with whatever it is you decided to do.
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