how I know we won't have any snow whatsoever this season

MIL bought the kiddo not 1 but 2 new sleds just this weekend, guaranteeing we will not see any significant snow this year.

happy to have dodged that bullet

we have a touch of snow around for the past day or so and as luck would have it David drove me into work this morning..only one of the cars is all wheel drive...while we were gone the neighbor had a mishap trying to get out and slid into our driveway exactly right where our car had been parked. Thankfully we didn't have that hassle to deal with!

Knox county school system lost their minds today

flurries....flurries that were not sticking to anything got the kids out of school 3 hours early! And I might add it's not even flurrying now..but it brings me back to the snow day conundrum the weather was not bad enough today to warrant anything he could have safely gone to daycare which would have been easier on everyone (that should read me) but this sort of protocol is not something that can be changed on a whim. So what to do what to do??? In case of real snow I would like to know that he will picked up and taken straight home so I suppose protocol will have to stay as it is currently even though it is an inconvenience when the school system has lost it's ever-loving mind.

snow day

yeah not really for us growned ups but the kiddos are out of school. I would love a snow day comfy & cozy in my pjs but David & I will fall back to our snow routes and go to work together 'cause you know what icy roads I don't like 'em never have even when I lived in the land of real snow-yes I am a snarky northerner when it comes to snow and you know what the only difference is "they" clean the streets all of them an generally really well so you aren't trapped in your house. Luckily C will get dropped over at MIL for snow day at her house which I am sure will entail lots of video game playing. I guess we should get this show on the road!

early dismissal conundrum

calling for snow this afternoon so what do we do with C should the schools close early?
Last year I let him take the daycare van as he does every day I went to daycare and waited close to 2 hours for my son to arrive they have 3 schools to pick up from and each and every school was evidently utter & complete chaos. And while the roads never got too too bad the road to daycare and the hill it is on was not good I was none too amused and I was already not amused by having to wait for 2 hours for my kid to arrive. So I signed the sheet that he would be picked up by a parent or grandparent, now if it is snowing I know the grandparent who is local would not venture out to pick him up so I will be keeping a close eye on the weather and school information and hopefully just hopefully the weather will hold & the snow will start later this afternoon like 4 or maybe 5pm would be really great

and the 12:45 update
not a single damn flake and the schools are closing exactly 1 hour early which means as worked out previously with C this morning I will pick him up from school!!!!! UGH!!!!!! As there is no inclement weather picking him up at daycare would have been easier but I said any early dismissal and I would pick him up so the million dollar question is when do I leave work? and how horrible will the horrendous pick up line be exactly?

this forecast brought to you by...

your local grocery store.
let the snow panicking begin

day two of snow day miracle

Monday was only 1/2 a day of miracle so this will be second full day. Yes they are out of school again today except there has not been more snow it is just very very cold and they say we maybe might have more snow at some point today upshot being no school today. I have some school work to do myself this morning and then I will see if Mee-Maw doesn't mind a visitor again today, hopefully the Wii has cooled down after much play yesterday..

the snow day miracle

first thing out of C's mouth this morning. There was more miracle talk when the weather came on and they started in with more snow coming tonight. So a snow miracle??!? Not really quite sure it qualifies as a miracle but whatever....
While my class was technically cancelled the teacher sent out the word she wanted us there at 10 ready to start on the exam. So I went and did what she assigned then found the rest of it online to be finished before noon tomorrow & I have plans to finish it tomorrow morning in my pajamas & slippers with my morning coffee. Isn't technology grand?
David dropped C over at his mother's house for the day so he could play Wii and probably eat pizza or Mickey D's for lunch as well as various & sundry other bits of junk food throughout the day. Not exactly the most productive use of a day off but what are 'ya going to do? I think perhaps the full snow day today might have been a waste especially if we get the snow they are calling for tonight and really need a snow day tomorrow. I don't know I realize it can be a difficult decision, can't please all of the people all of the time etc however I think they could have managed with just a delay this morning. They never do delays here for some reason I just don't know what that reason might be.

snow day dance

The early dismissal was kind of nice. I napped. After C finished his homework I broke rules and let him play PS2on a weekday so I could nap. It was a good thing. Tonight finds him wishing, hoping and praying hard for a snow day tomorrow. We have made him go to bed regular time just in case but I am thinking it will be an icy mess tomorrow morning so they will call school. I would prefer they do it before I go to bed but no big deal I suppose I am usually up fairly early. I do have an exam myself in the morning that I am wondering about. The snow event 2 weeks ago gave us a 2 hour delay cancelling class so I suppose that the same is likely for us tomorrow but I have studied just in case. I thankfully have signed up for text alerts so any delays will go right to my phone no need to hover around the tv,radio or computer for an update. Growing up my brother & I would use our back porch as the snow gauge and depending on how high it was on the ledge we would analyse the likelihood of a 1 hour delay, a 2 hour delay or a cancellation.

need to rethink my snow event protocol

rather I need to figure out what my snow event protocol is and then perhaps rethink it. As it started to snow and stick I kept checking the news sites for school closures and by the time they called it I had already decided to head west and fetch the kid. I had called daycare earlier and confirmed that they would have the bus out to collect the kids from school which was good because(bad mother alert) I have no flipping idea what I wrote on the emergency card as to what C should be doing in an emergency. He could get picked up by several folks including myself or he can take the bus home although he does not have a key so maybe not a great idea, there is a friend's house the next street over that he could go to if he were to ride the bus, assuming, that they are home. So fine, finally Knox calls it for 12.30 however I did not have enough time to get him & notify the aftercare van that I did have him in fact if I could have gotten him first. Soooo I went to this daycare and wound up waiting almost an hour for him there. Quite honestly the scariest road conditions were the road & driveway of the daycare. And I had to wait almost an hour till he got there. A wasted hour at that! I should have stayed at work and done some work, or taken my lunch with me and had that while waiting, or if I had brought my textbook with me this morning I could have got some study time in which brings me to my next question my exam at 9.10 wonder if that will happen, safe bet C won't have school but will I?

I do not have enough bread

but we are well stocked with milk and eggs...Not exactly a big snow event but snow nonetheless. I hope it stays warmish or tomorrow morning will be messy and I suppose no school for the kid. Stay tuned

snow?

hope we have enough milk and bread...

snow!

oh um yeah no not here in K-town but up north they got plenty of it going on! We still have rain lots and lots of rain so it'll be not so much a white Christmas but instead a damp Christmas. As luck would have it kiddo & I are not traveling north today which was the original plan I have a feeling even if we got out of here we'd be stuck at an airport for a day. I suppose sometimes things work out for the best.
Hope my folks have enough milk & bread!

snow day

hmmm yup did not get one. Shocking I know. Good thing I made my nine bazillion cookies last night although I believe I caused a rift in my marriage by telling David he could not sample any. Yes I should have made an extra batch but I had exactly enough for the teacher's cookie exchange. I suppose I will make more this weekend. So back to the snow day or rather lack there of.. I still turned on local news this morning because lack of snow is not necessarily an indication of school cancellation C anxiously watched with me and got excited when he saw Knox County scrawl across the bottom only to have his little hopes shattered at it being Knox County KY
maybe next time buddy...

rain rain and more rain

bleech I feel like a drowned rat and my house smells of wet dog. I am sick of standing water on the roads & in parking lots, my clothes being damp and looking at my yard full of muddy nasty puddles... I was going to say well at least it isn't snow but looking at the forecast it might be snow tonight. I hope we have enough bread, milk, eggs & toilet paper 'cause I am not going near a grocery store this afternoon! A snow day might be nice but I wonder if I should bake my 8 dozen cookies for the PTA for tomorrow? If I don't it'll stay rainy but if I do school will be closed tomorrow and I will have 8 dozen cookies at the house..maybe I should get more milk

feeling left out

I might be the only blogger in K-town to have not blogged about the gas gouging going on here in tow...oops not any longer.
Hot on the heels on the sky is falling method of pricing can we expect the same at the grocery stores when Mr Howell calls for a flake or two of snow?
I don't know that I am prepared to pay $8 for a loaf of bread or $10 for a gallon of milk

batten down the hatches people

I heard the "S" word on the weather forecast this morning.
One of the thing I dislike about this area and the remote possibility of snow fall besides the inevitable rush at the grocery stores is the knee jerk reaction to close school at the vaguest hint of a snowflake. Now as I a child I am sure I would love it especially since they don't really get snow days here. I do remember the excitement & anticipation listening to the radio waiting to hear Danbury make the list of cancellations. We also had delays up north-it would start an an hour go to 90 minutes & then 2 hour delay but generally speaking once you hit 2 hour it was more than likely they would cancel for they day. I had my own gauge-you would turn on the back porch light & "measure" the snowfall guessing & hoping for that the next morning that you would have a day off so you would not have to finish your homework.

ack run for the groceries!

they're talking snow for Saturday night. better stock up on bread, milk, eggs and toilet paper!!!
My parent's always want to know do people make french toast & go to the bathroom when it snows down here?