Snow Day

In September my students selected November 15 as the day they wanted to hold a family math night in a local public elementary school. Well that didn't end up being a wise choice as we got 9 inches of snow this afternoon. On Tuesday we made the decision to move the event to November 29. Hopefully we'll still get a nice turnout. I taught from 8:00-10:45 and then headed to a middle school for an observation that I thought was going to take place starting at 11:25, but it turns out the student teacher failed to inform me that her school was having an early dismissal due to the snow at 11:30. I had a student teacher in the elementary school (same district) send me an email saying they were dismissing at 12:15, so I assumed the middle school was also dismissing at that time. So I drove for an hour (round trip thankfully not one way) for nothing. Bummer. The school where I planned to drive tomorrow morning already has announced a two hour delay so I have decided to reschedule the two observations from today and the two I planned to conduct tomorrow morning all for

 

Monday instead. Paul usually goes to work on Mondays, but that will be the only day next week that he'll need to stay home with the kids. The university cancelled classes from 2pm onward, which meant my 3:30-4:45 class was cancelled. I usually get home around 5:30pm, but today I got home around 12:30pm. It had just begun to snow as I was driving home.

I did have snow pants for everyone, but I hadn't gotten snow boots for Nadia yet. She used mine (which are quite a few sizes too big for her). When I see snow, I almost always think of my mom. Given that I prefer warm weather, I am not a fan of snow, but my mom (who was born and raised in Detroit) loved snow. I will admit it's pretty to look at through a window from inside my warm house. My love of taking pictures of my kids is the only reason I ventured outside for a few minutes.

We shall see what is cancelled or postponed tomorrow due to the snow. I was scheduled to participate in a meeting at the new children's museum, and the kids are supposed to have art and gym classes tomorrow.