Today I was reviewing my blog from last January (2009-2010) and found a post about snow days. After just 4, I realized I was unproductive, irritated, and needed something to do. Well friends.... today officially marks snow day #11 of the 2010-2011 year. Yep, you heard right... 11! Not only that, but we've let out early on 2 other occasions, really making a grand total of 12 snow days. How much snow, you ask? Oh, an inch here are there.... once we got 3 inches. That put us out of school for the entire week. Anyway, just imagine how I feel now. I try to be ambivalent. I mean, there really is nothing I can do about it. But it's hard. I hate that school is cancelled when it's 40 degrees and sunny and seriously all snow except what can be found hiding in dark sheltered and shadowed crevices is MELTED. I hate that we can't seem to string together 5 uninterrupted school days. I hate the lack-of-anything-structured that leaves my children running around like they simply forgot how to do school. I hate that after-school tutoring and Saturday Academy have also been cancelled far more than 12 times due to additional "fear of snow" warnings. And I hate that my summer break is getting shorter by the minute.
Here's to 2011.... Please get better, soon.
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