SNOW DAY!

Never have I experienced a snow day in my university career. But I must admit that, even though it's last minute and I still did all my reading/lesson planning, it's pretty great. I haven't measured, but it's waist deep on Bee, and coming on knee deep on me! Everything looks BEAUTIFUL! And since I didn't have to go to class or go teach, we got to all go out to play together.

I remember people in Utah laughing about how it takes so much more snow there to close anything. I have to mention that at least people in the Midwest know how to drive in the snow. They may not cancel school and things in Utah, but it's not because people can handle it any better. In the last few days I've been grateful to watch the people driving around me knowing how to steer with/out of skids, and being patient enough to slow down enough to be safe but not so much that they slide off the road. Which was not my experience while living in Utah. I felt perfectly confident driving in the snow, but was terrified of the people around me, so I walked everywhere when it snowed.

I now know why my mom used to set up a big wooden rack on the back porch and insist that we take EVERYTHING but our very bottom layer off and hang it up before we were allowed in the house. I'll have done two loads of laundry today just for the sake of keeping the house dry. Which is fine, because we've had a blast in the snow, but it's telling. And I only have one! Mom used to keep up with the four of us going in and out constantly when it snowed.

At one point Bee put a big armful of snow onto the belly of my coat and said "I'm putting snow on baby brother!" It was great.

Grateful

Following my sister's example, I'm going to write a few things I'm glad of today.

I have a good group of students....the wimpy ones dropped. (I lost SEVEN students after day 1)

I have Fridays off...therefore, on Thursdays I get to let my brain rest a little.

Bee looks really cute when she's bundled up for 0-degree weather. (She even ended up with her picture in the paper the link isn't that great, you have to click on the "sub-zero weather" link on the homepage...I tried everything I could think of to get a direct link. Oh well!)

They did an extra ultrasound, and baby boy is just FINE and perfect and healthy (despite some sketchiness on the first one).

My midwife gave me the go-ahead for flying the dates of Chamizal. Now I just have to come up with $450. :-D

I think Hannah's right...it's good to think about why things were good today. Today was a good day, overall. And we've managed to get the semester routine down. This week was adjustment week, next week will be the trial run, and then we should be in business! It's always an adventure changing things up and figuring out how to do life (who's cooking when, if Bee can nap at a normal time, how on earth to get homework done...etc etc etc). But somehow it always comes together, thank goodness! It's definitely through none of my doing....I think it's just blessings. I've been really especially grateful since continuing in grad school with Bee and now another. I think Heavenly Father has helped things to work out as a "you made a good choice having kids now and not waiting til your first tenure job." Otherwise I'd be too dense to figure it out on my own. :-)

To anyone who thinks feminism has accomplished its purpose

Read this. Sorry for all the articles. I just can't help it!

I can't believe that this can still happen...anywhere.