Today we closed school at 12:00 because of the looming “snow storm”. Tuesday we had a lot of snow towards the end of the day and the buses dropped the kids off at home pretty late. (One bus didn’t even get to school until 4:00.) Anyway, I guess the bus drivers didn’t want to risk driving in the snow and listening to parent complaints today so they canceled the second half of the day. Funny thing - I think it only snowed for about 30 minutes today.

Oh well. I got to go out for lunch with friends, and go to Christmas shopping with Lexi so I’m totally on board with pretend snow days.

No school today. Snow day part 2.

A few fun things that happened today…

1. Snow. Lots and lots of snow. Last week we got a pile of snow dumped on us. Today it started up again and didn’t let up until around 8 tonight. Kevin had to shovel various trenches and piles so the dogs couldn’t climb the snowdrifts and jump the fences.

2. Snow day. Due to all the snow, we sent the kids home by 11:45, so I was home by noon.

3. Speak’s Photoshoot. Speak had a photoshoot for Target today. Kevin took him since I was at work. While he was there he found out the when the Target photo ad people are discussing what dogs they need for upcoming ads they all talk about Speak by name. Apparently, he’s a big star around there. Also, they told Kevin that when Speak models something Target gets more calls asking about where they can get a dog like Speak and what type of dog he is than asking about the actual clothing he is wearing.

4. Lexi decided she can crawl - sort of. She has figured out how to sit up on her own so she has been lurching forward grabbing what she wants and then sitting back up. Today she was in her room and decided she wanted a book so she sort of crawled, dragged and walked on all fours to get there. It was pretty funny to see.

5. Standing up. Since she has figured out how to sit up on her own, she has realized that she can pull herself to standing. Which means she spent the first part of nap time sitting up, standing up and playing around.

So those are the highlights of today. Hopefully tomorrow I won’t have to go to school. We have a staff development day planned, but it’s just working in our rooms, getting ready for conferences. I wouldn’t mind doing that work from home. It will only take me an hour or so to get things done - I don’t really need to stay at school for 6 hours.

The next best thing to a snow day is the day after. I have 17 kids on my attendance list. Today 11 came to school on time. One more showed up about an hour late. And the 3 most annoying stayed home.

12 is a great number for a kindergarten class.

Reason #68 - Snow days.

It’s not really a snow day, but because of the cold they couldn’t get our busses started. When I got to school they told me it was a 2 hour delayed start. Whoo-hoo, two hours of prep time. 5 minutes later we were told school was cancelled for the day. I stayed for about an hour cleaning up my room and sorting a few things out and then headed home. Now I’m just watching t.v., working on some lesson plans, and hanging out with Lexi. Not a bad way to start a week.