Snow Day in the South

Today was the first wintery day of the season. Yesterday a bit before noon is started to sleet and alternately sleeted and snowed well into the night. All this yuck only amounted to a bout an inch of crunchy snow on tyhe ground but it did manage to cancel school for my oldest. This distressed her greatly as she was scheduled to be on a bus at 6 am to go to the March for Life in DC. She went last year and loved it. It was a school sponsored event and she had even convinced her pro-abortion friend to go. (Her friend believes that people do not have souls until long after birth when they earn them so there is no reason not to kill them, which is probably a strange enough topic for a post all its own)
Anyway, the girls have been full of themselves all morning. Singing, joking, and getting along which is a major improvement. After lunch they took little sister out and pulled her around the yard on her new Christmas sled, much to her delight and let the dogs rumpus together.
I thought I would take the opportunity to drink a cold glass of ginger ale and catch up reading the message boards. So I went to the frisge to get some crushed ice for my drink. I pushed, nothing happened. So I put the ginger ale and water in the glass. Then I thought,"Surely I can get the ice thingy to work" so I jiggled and shook various parts and it began to make the appropriate grinding noise....but no ice came out. So I opened the freezer door and found that the chute was full of ice but had not triggered the flap to let it out into my glass. So I pushed on the ice pack and whoosh! all the ice that was backed up came exploding into my glass causing it to over flow and ice to spread all over the floor: my own personal kitchen ice storm I suppose.
Mean old Momma that I am, I still am making the homeschool duo do their work today. Although the older has disappeared into the shower for the past hour. I will get her when she emerges. Mwa ha ha.......

School started again

I dug in and had the girls start school again Tuesday. Of course the younger one had managed to lose 3 of her books during the winter break. With the older I am trying to give her more choice in what she studies. I am not entirely sure how I feel about this. I read up on Sudbury schools and decided it way too radical a leap of educational faith for me. Yet I wanted her to take more charge of preparing for her future. So I let her choose what to study this semester. Sh chose to take an intro to Algebra class that was offered, read lots of literature, learn more about grammar, and look into animal health. We'll see how that goes.
Of course, the younger one is being a real stinker. I asked to see her math lessons for the week today and she couldn't find them. So I told her she had to re-do them if she couldn't locate them. (I had suspected she hadn't done them yesterday when couldn't tell me the subject of the lessons) So an hour later I check how far she has gotten. 2 problems done. So I said she had to work in her room instead of in front of the TV. That provoked her to stomp into her room screaming how unfair I was being. I am so mean, I expect her to do the work she is told to do instead of watching TV. (/me rolls my eyes.)

I spoke too soon

Not 24 hours after I commented how warm it had been this winter, it turned cold. Started as just a nip in the air but now is positively brrr-freezy. But no snow, which is sad because I really miss snow, even though I have lived in VA for almost 20 years now. Yet I am glad it is cold if it will kill all the evil germs who have been persecuting me!

Sick Sick Sick

This feels like the Winter that is not. It has been in the 60s and 70s with only a few cold nights. I have trouble holding it in my mind that it is really January.I mean the bushes are trying to bloom! One of the side effects of a warm winter is increased germs. I think I have caught everything that has come down the pike. In mid December I had a double ear infection and sinus infection. I managed to get well for Christmas but 3 days later got the flu, in spite of having taken the flu shot. Well, that was 7 days of misery. Thought I was going to cough up a lung and ached all over. I guess from the way I felt, it would have killed me without the shot. So I am out of bed one day and it is DD#2 b-day so i take her and friends out to dinner and the arcade. By the time I get home I have a raging intestinal virus and spend the next 24 hours on the pot. So I get over that and say well, I think I have had it all now. I was wrong. Next I get a yeast infection! I am NOT saying I have had it all. Germs, and all other infectious critters stay away!

Sick Sick Sick

This feels like the Winter that is not. It has been in the 60s and 70s with only a few cold nights. I have trouble holding it in my mind that it is really January.I mean the bushes are trying to bloom! One of the side effects of a warm winter is increased germs. I think I have caught everything that has come down the pike. In mid December I had a double ear infection and sinus infection. I managed to get well for Christmas but 3 days later got the flu, in spite of having taken the flu shot. Well, that was 7 days of misery. Thought I was going to cough up a lung and ached all over. I guess from the way I felt, it would have killed me without the shot. So I am out of bed one day and it is DD#2 b-day so i take her and friends out to dinner and the arcade. By the time I get home I have a raging intestinal virus and spend the next 24 hours on the pot. So I get over that and say well, I think I have had it all now. I was wrong. Next I get a yeast infection! I am NOT saying I have had it all. Germs, and all other infectious critters stay away!