For those of you out there who have school-aged kids and live in the Great White North, we are feeling the same pain. In the last week, the school buses in our Board have been cancelled THREE times.
On the first day, we hit the snow hills on our magic carpets, drank some hot chocolate, and generally just hung about feeling good about the found day we got to share together. I’m one of the lucky mommas who has some flexibility to do this every now and again. It means a late night at my computer, but I’m good with that.
Well, I’m good with that as long as it doesn’t start getting too repetitive. Two days later and it’s another snow day. We have another bit of fun but there is some novelty rapidly wearing off, from where I’m sitting.
The next day was a Thursday and it happens again. Good-bye “fun mom”, hello crazy woman who would pull them on a sled for the full five kilometres to school if required. The van doors were frozen shut but I was not going to let that little obstacle stop us. I was determined for them to spend some quality time with the three other kids with psycho-moms who turned up at school that day.
Thursday is my one day I can head into the Mabel’s Labels office for the WHOLE day. We Mabel Mommas were not going to let a bit of snow and ice slow us down. While bad weather may shut down our education system, kids are not going to start losing stuff under our watch!
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Hope you’re hanging in there Julie! It’s funny what we can accomplish if we have the right motivation, eh?
In case misery loves company, you’re not the only one:
http://academom.syr.edu/archives/2008/02/todays_weather.html