Snow Day
I was just going back to bed at 5:00 AM this morning when suddenly the phone rang. I thought it was Sheryl calling to remind me of thing she forgot to tell me when she left just a few short moments ago. It turned out to be somebody from the school PTA asking me to activate the class phone tree to let everybody know school was closed. We have a snow day!
I made my calls and went back to bed but not before turning off all of the alarms set to wake Meghan and me up in time for the bus. The next thing I knew, Meghan was waking me up saying she needed to get ready for school. When I asked her if she wanted to goto school today, she said, "Yes, we get to play in the snow at recess!" Then I asked her what time it was.
It was a teaching moment, I just couldn't resist. She looked at the clock and noticed it was after nine. Over an hour after the bus would have normally picked her up. She was upset she missed the bus. I let her suffer for a moment and then let her know school was cancelled. Her face lit up and she did a little dance. When I asked her why she was not disappointed as she had said she would, Meghan replied, "I changed my mind!"
A couple of hours later, I finally was motivated to move and fed everybody breakfast. By noon, we were all bundled up to enjoy the 10 inches of snow which had fallen overnight. I cleared the driveway while Meghan and Mathew played in the backyard with Baloo. Once I was done snow blowing, the kids joined me in front with their shovels. It seemed they knocked more snow back into the driveway than they cleared.
Then I noticed the our neighbor's, Yolanda, snow covered steps. Yolanda lives by herself and is not able to clear the snow. I sent the kids over to her house to clear the steps and learn the value of doing a good deed. After I was done with the driveway, I went over to help the kids finish the steps. Yolanda noticed we were done and came out to give both Meghan and Mathew a dollar. At this pace, uncle Rick and his snowplows had better watch out!
I made my calls and went back to bed but not before turning off all of the alarms set to wake Meghan and me up in time for the bus. The next thing I knew, Meghan was waking me up saying she needed to get ready for school. When I asked her if she wanted to goto school today, she said, "Yes, we get to play in the snow at recess!" Then I asked her what time it was.
It was a teaching moment, I just couldn't resist. She looked at the clock and noticed it was after nine. Over an hour after the bus would have normally picked her up. She was upset she missed the bus. I let her suffer for a moment and then let her know school was cancelled. Her face lit up and she did a little dance. When I asked her why she was not disappointed as she had said she would, Meghan replied, "I changed my mind!"
A couple of hours later, I finally was motivated to move and fed everybody breakfast. By noon, we were all bundled up to enjoy the 10 inches of snow which had fallen overnight. I cleared the driveway while Meghan and Mathew played in the backyard with Baloo. Once I was done snow blowing, the kids joined me in front with their shovels. It seemed they knocked more snow back into the driveway than they cleared.
Then I noticed the our neighbor's, Yolanda, snow covered steps. Yolanda lives by herself and is not able to clear the snow. I sent the kids over to her house to clear the steps and learn the value of doing a good deed. After I was done with the driveway, I went over to help the kids finish the steps. Yolanda noticed we were done and came out to give both Meghan and Mathew a dollar. At this pace, uncle Rick and his snowplows had better watch out!
posted by Howard at 11:51 PM
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