Another one, with a two-hour delay already announced for tomorrow. What I’m waiting to see is if any of this will impact what was to be a long weekend coming up  – the Catholic schools have a 4-day weekend scheduled, with Friday being some sort of Catholic school teachers’ in-service and Monday Presidents’ Day, of course. Public schools have Monday scheduled off. The odd thing is that the Catholic high school in our part of town, which calls its emergency days separately from the public system has already cancelled school for tomorrow. I really have no idea why – so that means if they stick with keeping Friday off, those kids will have been to school one day this week…

So, someone had a couple of play sessions in the snow. Willingly, which is totally foreign to me. When I was young I hated being sent outside to play in the snow (in Illinois and Kansas, that would have been), but Joseph, while he doesn’t bound out at the crack of dawn, is fairly intrigued by the whole thing. Once he went survived the initial encounter, tightly encased in his gear, and discovered that he could roll around in the stuff and basically stay warm and fairly dry, he was all for it. He is a child who can get deeply interested in how things they are and why they are that way, so as I watched him through the window, I saw him doing a lot of experimentation of one sort or another.  But as someone once said to me  –  all children are natural-born scientists. Then at some point we squeeze it out of them and make them do worksheets all day.

The little one has no boots small enough for his feet. I looked earlier in the winter, a couple of times, but he’s such a shrimp, I couldn’t find anything. Probably just as well. He might have ended up as a snowman in this pile.