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I interrupt this regular blog on parenting special kids to tell you how happy my children are that we returned to Atlanta today. Just after we pulled in this afternoon, it began to snow! Frankly, we had a hard time remembering the last time it had snowed in Atlanta, but then decided it was in 2004.
I have to laugh thinking about what prayers I had asked for from our church family. They wanted to give us “something” in our time of grief. I suggested that prayers for “a safe journey and no bad weather until we returned” were in order. I was thinking of bad weather in Illinois; but bad weather here, is fine as well.
Kay got to try her hand at driving in the snow, as we went to Wednesday night activities at church. I got to fight the other grocery shoppers for the remaining loaves of bread and tomato soup. And the kids are now watching TV in hopes that they soon scroll the school closings across the bottom of the screen. (LuLu hasn’t figured out yet that virtual school won’t be having a snow day, especially not after two days off for the funeral!)
But, before it got too dark tonight, Super Dad (who was acting about 10-years-old in all this wet slush) and the girls built this snowman. He’s been declared the largest snow man they’ve ever built in Georgia. He was dubbed “Grandpa Charlie”, and is sporting Grandpa Charlie’s hat.
Then Mom, who had just returned from the tug-o-war over the last loaf of bread heated up some Nesquik and rice milk (casein free!), and was quickly chastised for forgetting the marshmallows, although Kay (who had slipped a bit driving through our freezing neighborhood streets) decided not to go to the store for them.
Glad you got to have some fun. We don’t have a shortage of snow here in Wisconsin. You could have ventured a little farther north.
Sounds fun — my kids are jealous. They want to build snowmen and make snow angels sometime. We don’t get too much white stuff here on the tropic of cancer. Have to settle for rain and wind if we want “real weather.” Plus of course we HS also, so no “weather days!!” — Rachel
We have snow in neighboring SC too!
Julie — (I tried to email you off line w/out luck.) I’m sure you have heard about the battle over the funding of virtual academies? AP had a story out of Wisconsin on 1/16, and Oregon has also been in the news lately — elsewhere also I’m sure. How woud this affect Lulu and her schooling? What about other children in adoptive and foster homes? Wondering if you might blog on it … Rachel (homeschool mom in the old-fashioned, boring, lowtech sense)