Well, they called it. We have another snow day tomorrow. Apparently the roads are still pretty bad in areas because the salt can't touch them.
Today we did get out of the house though. We went to a church that had some bounce houses. We might go again tomorrow; we'll have to see how the roads are. Then we went to Hope College. Dad brought them to the dining hall for lunch and then they didn't have to wait in the office as long. We also got to karate this afternoon.
The snow days at Hope College that didn't affect me...have now affected me. Since my lab students missed two days of lecture they haven't learned about free body diagrams yet, which is what the next prelab covers. Anyway, I decided the prelab could be more of a postlab and made it due in a week and half. Trying to teach students about FBDs via YouTube videos and/or a brief email did not seem appropriate.
Today was another snow day for Isaac. It was a good call; it wasn't great out. They also canceled school for tomorrow at the same time. That one was expected...it's supposed to feel like -25deg F for most of the day.
While I was teaching at 2:30 Hope College canceled all classes for 3pm and after, including tomorrow. It was a bit odd...suddenly half the students were glancing at their phones and whispering. Well, if all the students got something at the same time it can only mean that, today at least, classes were canceled. Sure enough!
Some students didn't read the notification and so I got to give them the news that classes are canceled tomorrow too. But then I told them that classes weren't canceled until 3pm, so I got to keep them for another 20 minutes (unless that felt as though the needed to leave for safety reasons).
I then sent an email to my on-line lab saying that their lab report is still due tomorrow! However, I did note that if they needed to drive to use a lab computer or walk too far to meet with their partners to let me know and I could grant an extension.
I told Joshua he could have a snow day tomorrow, but he'd have to play by himself and do some cleaning because I still have labs to grade. Luckily he agreed to that contract, because his daycare canceled for tomorrow too...along with what seems like most of Holland.
Today Isaac had a snow day. I thought it was pretty bad, but it wasn't too bad. (Although I didn't have to drive any where.) The odd thing was that pretty much everything in town closed down. The doctor's office, the library, and karate. It meant that all of the places I was thinking of going today were closed. It was mostly nice. :D
Isaac decided that Tornado was looking very cute and so we took a bunch of pictures while people and cats were looking cute.
School's been canceled for tomorrow!! They canceled around 9:00 this evening and it looks like most of the schools canceled at the same time. Tomorrow is a good day for a snow day, although we have a few places to go in the afternoon. Hopefully by that time our street will have been plowed at least once.
Today Ben came into the bedroom at 11:15am. I woke up for the morning and was crazy surprised that I slept the whole morning. Usually I wake up and go back to sleep several times throughout the morning, and then by 10ish I'm up. This morning I only heard Ben get up and Joshua cry once.
But I guess I am getting over being sick, so maybe it makes sense.
The boys also got some Lego belts. Isaac wanted me to tell you that his seven spikes.
Isaac had a snow day today! There wasn't a ton of snow, but maybe it was really cold?
Anyway, I was rather glad about it because 1) I don't have to work Fridays and 2) Isaac could help entertain Joshua while I wasn't feeling good. It turns out that I'm definitely on the mend. I was still more tired than normal, but no fever and found myself doing things instead of just sitting. That tends to be my clue on how well I'm actually doing...if I just can't make myself move I'm usually sick.
Anyway, snow days are good for running around boxes.
I played Duplos for the first time in a while. We watched "Cars" since it matches the puzzle we are currently putting together. After that I snow blowed. Luckily, Ben had discovered that the augur was a chunk of ice before leaving for work, so I had a space heater thaw it during the morning. That wet snow from a few days ago had come back to haunt us. Anyway, by the time I had finished that and done some computer work "rest" time was almost done for the boys. I decided to take a nap anyway, since they still had their screen time to go. Well, they continued to play together for the next two hours. I took my nap and read some of my book before I heard the voices start to get frustrated and so I came out and we had ice cream.
After screen time we had a brief clean up time since during their three hours of playing together they put enough toys in all the walk ways that it was pretty much impossible to walk anywhere without stepping on something. The cats had tipped over their treats, so they had to help during clean up time too.
Yay for snow!! There is a bunch more in the forecast and it looks like there will easily be one or two more snow days next week. :D
Well, after an ok morning the fever came back and I was glad that I had canceled classes. The cats enjoyed watching the birds and squirrels in the morning as I finished grading some labs.
On the upside though, it turns out I'm not pregnant or nursing and so I can have some of the good medicine. (It was so long that I couldn't have "good" meds that I don't always remember that I can have them.) The DayQuil works pretty well...well enough that I could move kids around and get home before feeling sick again.
