The Elementary School declared a snow day. The High School declared a late start day. The Community College, just far enough down the hill to never really have snow stick, does not call snow days. A couple chain links in my tire chains are broken and I'm stuck. Fortunately there is email.
I have decided to blame this latest snow storm on my nieces and nephew who are up visiting from the flat lands this week, who wanted to play in snow, but it has only rained - buckets and buckets - since they got here, and said rain has eliminated the nice big pile of snow on the shady side of the barn they could have played in, and played with, except that instead, they just saw - mournfully through the windows - the rain steal more and more of the precious white stuff from them - so, it is their fault that last night the rain downpours turned into mega dumping of snow overnight and I'm stuck.
Oh, and it's also Nathan's Language Arts teacher's fault. Yesterday was the designated day for the MAJOR IMPORTANT STATE WRITING ASSESSMENT TEST, and all 4th and 7th graders required to take (and do stupendously well on) said test, and their parents, were informed repeatedly that they MUST be AT school, and not sick, and not at a dentist appointment, and NOT out of town, AND the skies were given STRICT instructions to NOT create transportation difficulties for any students on the day the state required this MAJOR TEST be given and completed, but that after that, and I quote Nathan quoting his teacher, "it can dump all the snow it wants to." See, it's all her fault too.
I'm sure it's also my children's fault - any dumping of snow and snow plows not getting to our roads is usually their fault. And it's probably my mom's fault too - anything to get out of sending kids to school for a day. Oh yeah, and the stake has been fasting for "moisture" and for "snow in the mountains to sustain us this summer," which we really do need and I have fasted and prayed for too, but someone down hill from us must have not been specific about praying that it just snow on TOP of the mountains and keeping it there for run-off this summer, so it's that person's fault too. We're on the SIDE of the mountain and rain here would have been just fine. In fact, we're lower in elevation than the 2 water reservoirs near us so any snow here doesn't help them anyway.
Boy am I a grump, I have a snow day too, from work anyway, if not from my classes. I can cuddle up with my kids and read and play games, and I can hopefully get a bunch of research done (if we don't lose power). Children don't understand the down-sides to snow days, they think a snow day is for going outside! and creating even bigger piles of LAUNDRY! wet, mucky, usually semi-muddy piles of laundry, and on days when the power usually goes out. Oh yeah, and they somehow have to lose hats and mittens in the snow which will have to be replaced and .... I'm going to lose this one aren't I? The sun is up high enough now, and peeking through the clouds, and everything is SO pretty outside. I guess I just needed the sun. Enjoy your day.
Update - Dad fixed my chains - Thank You Dad! - and I tried to head out to my afternoon class and lab but it started blizzarding again and I started thinking I should just go home, and then it started hailing - TONS, HARD - and that did it, I turned back. And then the radio did one of those "we interupt with this important weather report - severe thunder storms and penny size hail." So I didn't get to the college at all.
cute post about how "the meanest mom's" snowday went
http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com/2009/03/snow-day.html
