My kids were home from school today. In New York City they officially announced schools would be closed today YESTERDAY, allowing parents time to find childcare. NYC almost NEVER closes the schools. I think they closed like 3 times in the past 10 years (something like that). Knowing this you’d THINK our school district would have done the same thing. Nope…they wanted until 4:50 THIS MORNING to send out the automated message that said schools were closed for today. No duh! They should have sent the message out YESTERDAY and not before 5:00 AM, which incidentally woke EVERYONE up. My kids have an extension of our phone in their room (I have an almost 13 year old daughter…need I say more?). So both my kids were jolted awake too. Ugh!
My husband was home from work today too. They almost never close down his office. He works at an International Investment Company which deals with millions of dollars each day from people around the Globe. When the Stock Market is open, they are open. Today they made the exception, thankfully.
I spent the day inside where as my husband braved the elements and took the kids out to play. Although our son doesn’t play in the snow. He prefers to shovel. NO KIDDING! While our daughter was making snow angels, sledding down the hill and throwing snow balls at my husband my son opted to shovel out the sidewalk and our cars. We pay hundreds of dollars a month for landscapers. They are the ones who come and shovel the sidewalks. Our son usually beats them to it. And they have snow blowers too!
Here are some random shots from today. The first two are of a car that was TRYING to make it’s way up the hill in our parking lot. It’s hard to tell from the photos but the hill is very steep. We got a kick out of the wavy pattern it made on the road.
Here is my husband playing with our dog in the snow when he took him out to do his business. We live on the top floor condo. I was hanging out of our dining room window to take this shot. I also video taped it. I was going to share the video but you can hear me rambling and my son rambling about the snow too. At one point I told my husband I would laugh my butt off if he slipped down the hill in the snow. It’s hard to tell from the photo but the area he’s playing on is also a steep hill.
Here are some random shots of my husband, son and daughter. Notice how “fuzzy”the images are. That is from the snow that was falling at the time I took the pictures. The one picture of my daughter by the tree gives you can idea of how much snow we got. It almost comes up to her knees and it continued to snow long after they came back inside.
My husband does have to go to work tomorrow (Thursday) at his normal time (he leaves here around 5:30 AM). Our kids have a two hour delay in the morning so I get to sleep in a bit (yeah!). My morning is going to be a bit off track but I should be back on schedule around lunch time.
Two hour delays just seem so silly. That means they start school at 10:30 and some kids go to lunch at 11:00 AM. Our school also has off ALL NEXT WEEK for Winter Recess. Why not just give them Thursday and Friday off too?
Hopefully my readers are all safe and sound and not buried under all this snow. 
