SNOW DAY!!!

Finally I don't have to be jealous of my husband for getting a snow day, because I got one too!

I'll back up to yesterday though because that's when they hype all started. Well, it started Monday, but I was sure hoping for a snow day yesterday! I got a text from my boss to call before coming in. She had me come in a little early, but usually 4 other staff go in before me. All of those staff live out of town, so I was the first one in besides my boss. It was pretty weird to only have 4 kids at 7:30!

By 9:30 several more kids rolled in. We had maybe 25-30 kids out of about 80. I didn't have any babies, so we combined the toddlers, 2's and a few 3's. The older 3's and preschoolers in another room and then the school agers. So out of 11 regular staff only 4 of us came in. The 4 of us were pretty bummed out that we had to be there, but we tried to make the best of it. The sleet started coming down pretty hard around 12 and by 1:30 several kids had been picked up. We found out a few minutes later that our boss was going to start calling parent's and we were going to get to close early! I ended up getting to go at 2 and everyone else was gone by 3 or before. We were really hoping for a snow day Wednesday but it didn't seem too promising.

I enjoyed my extra few hours at home yesterday afternoon. I played games on the computer and then rode 11 miles on our bike while watching Jacob play Rock Band 3. Then I decided I'd better take a shower because I saw that people in smaller towns were losing their power, and I needed to wash my hair! Got that done and supper was almost finished cooking when the lights started flickering! Thankfully they stayed on. They flickered a few more times, but we kept our power all night.

We decided to bust out some board games and played Life and a couple rounds of Clue. I love games!

Around 9:00 I got a text from my boss saying we were CLOSED! Yay! I may have gotten slightly giddy...or started yelling for Jacob and then doing this insane cackle while shouting that I had a snow day! Jacob's school had already called off around 5:00. The funny thing is, Taylorville only ended up with about 6 inches. Springfield, however got a foot!  But almost everything is closed in town anyway. Now the sun is shining and I get to enjoy a day filled with nothingness.

We slept in this morning and just got to lay in bed and talk before getting up. I would have slept longer, but the dentist called to say they closed, so my appointment is yet again postponed. I wasn't going to drive to Decatur today anyway, so it saved me from having to call later. I got up and made some eggs and bacon for breakfast and now here I sit. I'm thinking Jacob and I will duke it out over a game of Monopoly later and watch "Groundhog Day" because I feel it's quite appropriate for this day. (And the groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow today!).

Hope everyone is as lucky and gets to stay home today too!