no school, snow day!!!!!

 Yesterday it was so warm and rainy, it smelled like spring!  Camille and I decided to go for a walk down the road...

Camille mentioned how gloomy it is...I agreed, said, "...it'll be this way 'til probably June."  

It will get better, it'll get green and promising.  But not today.  Today, we went right back to winter.  My phone camera just doesn't capture the snow globe-ness of today.  

Huge snow flakes, it's actually beautiful.  The temperature dropped to 20 degrees before dawn, freezing the roads and the puddles and then snow started falling...we got a message that school was delayed for two hours, I told Miss Char to go back to bed...then school was cancelled, yay!!!  It's not the same excitement of past years when I had eight or ten kids in school, and they announced it was closed.  We didn't get a t.v until we had nine kids, we used to hear the school closings at ten minute intervals on the radio.  Then t.v. was a game changer, they were on a continuous loop at the bottom of the screen on the news channel.  Now, we get a text and phone call from the school, takes the fun almost out of it.  And, we have only ONE child left in public school!

But, that child has been longing for a snow day!  The last one she had was when I was in Florida and our flight got cancelled...by the time I got home that night, the snow day fun was long gone, I had missed it.

It's cold and wintery, but I am still enjoying the coziness.  I really love winter, and it's coming to an end, without having had too much treacherous travel.  Driving on slippery roads, or when you cannot even see where the road is, or in blinding snow, nope.  Each day of winter when I'm out and about and the driving is fine, I am so thankful.

Word has it that U.S. truckers are also planning some protests.   Our shelves are not so stocked as it is, will it get worse?  The bigger picture is that perhaps it will all work, and mandates will be dropped, borders opened, people will get rights back.  But, we might suffer in the short-run.  Grocery store shopping is shocking me, I see the price jumps, and I could cry, thinking about people who struggle so much, how are they managing?  On the one hand, I have this push in me to stock up on things, especially pet chow, because honestly, there are big empty spaces in some dog and cat food shelves.  Then I think of me having five bags in reserve, and some innocent guy going to get a bag for his hungry hound, and...none there.  It's too sad, and these are just the pups...what about the kids?  

I know, I know, it's not all doom and gloom.  Miss Kettler, our old kitty, the mama cat, is a purr-er.  She loves me, and loves to sit with me.  She's a huge pain in the rear, she's the one who prefers peeing in the hallway to her kitty litter sometimes, but she's so sweet.  She will also not hesitate to swat/scratch/bite any small child who looms over her, but I still love her.  

Sonja got home from the hospital yesterday, right as Cam and I were coming home from our walk.  I asked her if she wanted to go to Target, and yes, she did.  She needed a break, and some fun.  We got cat food, dog food (only one bag of each), toilet paper (only one!), chicken, and...fake tulips.  Aren't they pretty (first pic)?  I also bought Easter candy, not tons, just a few bags...

Then, to make it even more fun, we went through the McDonald's drive through.  They get the $1 McChicken, we got medium iced coffees for $1.49 (and they were really good!), and I got the McDouble, didn't eat the bun, and the 20 piece nuggets so we could bring some home to Charlotte Claire, who was home from school, and not happy that we went and had fun without her.  We don't go to McD's very often, so it's a treat when we do.  We didn't get fries, we TRY to be healthy ha ha.  The bottom line:  it tastes good.  :).  

The college closed too, Miss Sonja has the day off!  Cinnamon buns are going in the oven, the snow day is going to be amazing!!!!!