Venti

No, not a Starbucks coffee, me venti about snow. Yes, I love the white stuff. I even enjoy shovelling. NOW AND THEN. everything in moderation. Two dumps in the past two weeks and I have been the sole snow removal machine. Ok, So Dylan helped. But helping for him is taking snow from my pile and dumping it back onto that nice clear surface with no snow. We had 15in of wet heavy snow last week while Ethan was in Minneapolis. Then it rained for a couple days and today it snowed at least 6 inches while Ethan was returning from the UK. Exercise is one thing, this is iron man shovelling.

And now I will vent about school closures. If you are a FB-er, you may want to skip this part as I have been venting there... a lot. The preschool that we PAY for has decided to follow the Quincy public school policy about school closings for snow. So far they have cancelled school THREE TIMES. All over a little snow. Ok, the first day was a blizzard/ nor'easter. You can have that one. The snow had stopped falling for over 12 hours and all the streets cleared and the QPS system decided to delay school openings for two hours. That meant our preschool felt they school cancel. Then today, Wimpachusetts schools all freaked out about some fluffy snow (yeah, about six inches, but still very drivable with the plows) and cancelled school again. So I have now paid for three days of school that were not attended because of school policy. Unlike the public schools, however, the preschool does not compensate us for missed days - do not extend the school year or reimburse. So irritated. Especially for that two hour delay cancellation day. Pah-lease.

And now for the cute. Dylan is always using height as an age reference. "when I am tall like you, then..." Today's was particularly cute. While talking to Ethan, he said "When I get tall like you, then I can juggle. Then I will be a dad." Then at storytime, I heard Sophia exclaim" Mom, Dylan is so adorable! He just read this entire book all by himself with my help!" I enjoyed her enthusiasm and the part where he did it all by himself with her help.

So here are some snowy pictures for ya...