Well, if there is such a thing as global warming, it is only happening in the summer!  This winter is evidence that we are getting colder and colder!  So far, our girls now have 3 school days to make up…and we didn’t even have snow on any of those days.  The first was the Thursday before Christmas break…and I’m not complaining that we missed school that day because Thayer had an accident on an icy spot about 9:30 am.  It did minor damage to the front of his truck and caused him to get 18 stitches after hitting his chin on the steering wheel.  I can only imagine what that would have been like if it had been a school bus!  Then, we did have about 9 inches of snow late Christmas night into Dec. 26th.  It was beautiful!  The girls enjoyed playing in it for about an hour and then decided warm pjs and hot chocolate were really much more fun than cold, wet snow!  It was really powedery, so sledding wasn’t that great.  After lunch, we had to pack up our car and drive out of the pretty snow to SC where what little snow they got was already melted by that afternoon.  The snow lasted about 2 more days in NC but because it was over Christmas break, no school was missed.  And now, we’ve missed two days (and had a 2 hour delay today) for an ice storm that really didn’t leave  much ice…just enough to be a nuisance after re-freezing each night.  And, it really didn’t even start until after 3 pm of the first day of school we missed.  People are really mad at the school system…if they wait until the morning to make a call, people say they wish they had called the night before so they could sleep in.  If they make the call at night and it turns out that it was unnecessary, people are all upset about a wasted day.  All I can say is that I’m glad I’m not a weather forecaster or the person who has to make the call for the schools!

The icicles hanging from everywhere still looked really pretty this morning even at 10 am as we took the girls to school.    We drive through farmland to get to their schools, so the ice was glistening in the fields, too.   The sun is shining today so the rest of the ice should finish melting today.  I’m glad for the extra time we got to spend at home over the last few days.  I am on jury duty today, so I missed Monday afternoon and yesterday morning, but its still nice when the world seems to stop (except for jury duty!) and you can just play games, watch  movies and chill with your family.  If I knew we wouldn’t still be going to school in July, I’d actually hope for a few more days like that this winter!

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