Although we had just a small teasing of snowfall lately, it has been super duper freezing cold outside and no snow yet. One thing that I recently learned about living up here in the northwest during this cold weather is that not only do you have to cover your outdoor faucets but you have to remove your garden hose from the spiket at well. In California we always left our garden hose hooked up. Not here. There was a lady on the news last night that did not do that and the weather went down to the freezing temperature and her water pipe burst and flooded her whole downstairs.
This morning when I went to sign in for my volunteer work, a teacher who also teaches at Shadow Lake Elementary (same as our school district in our town) said that the other day their propane tank burst and the school was without heat. The kids had to keep their coats and jackets on and everything else while school was in session. They were still deciding whether or not to have the kids go to school today. In all honesty, since I hit early menopause, I choose the cold weather over the hot cause when it hot here I am so miserable.
Friday, December 11, 2009
IN THE CLASSROOM
Today was my day to volunteer in the classroom. Last Friday I totally forgot about it till 11:00 at night while discussing my day with dad. Today Mimi and Emma were working on their threading all the while pretending that the ribbon they were using to thread through the netting was Repunzle's long, long hair. Amidst all of their laughing and giggling they somehow managed to get their work done.
FASHION MODEL/SPY/ROCKSTAR
Believe it or not, every now and then Mimi likes to dress feminine. Being that it is so cold up here, she has to dress in layers which is something she is not too crazy about. She always asks "Why mom?" and I answer "Because it is not like California where it is around 75 degrees most of the time. Here it is darn near freezing temperature" Next thing I knew she was walking around with my sunglasses saying this is her fashion model/spy and rockstar look. It is most definitly never a dull moment around our house.
FOUL LANGUAGE
This morning I was showing Mimi the website her teacher Ms. Greenfield set up for the kids for online math games. Mimi said that she wanted to play a couple of the games. "OK, that's fine" I said. Next thing I heard coming out of our dear sweet little angel's mouth was "WHAT THE HELL?" In total disbelief I asked the girl to repeat the question. "What the heck?" the girl answers. Yeah right. Uh huh. Needless to say we had a long, long discussion on how to use foul language, which is never. However I was chuckling to myself on the inside. I knew the day would come but I was not quite prepared for it to be this morning.
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