Second snow day for the school year. They called it really, really late this time. My alarm went off at 6 AM and I looked outside and it seemed like there was about 2 inches of snow on the ground, maybe less. I went to check my phone and the voicemail said they had called half an hour ago, and that we were following a Delayed Opening schedule. Our ( Read more... )

I'm closer to 40 than 30 now! Though I argued to Brian that technically since I was born in Cologne, Germany at 2040 hours on Jan 23, it wasn't quite time yet this morning when we woke up ( Read more... )

So for this academic school year, we've had four snow days, two delayed openings (meaning school starts at 9:00 AM instead of 7:40 AM), and one early closing (school ended at 11:00 AM instead of 2:40 PM ( Read more... )

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It's snowing outside. And that's not even an April Fool's joke.

Going to see Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway tonight with 30 seniors. Wish me luck wrangling teenagers in Times Square, NYC.

ERIKA'S 9-MONTH WELL VISITShe's been awful sick with a cold/cough for a month now, but the pediatrician said her lungs are clear, and to keep doing the steam bath, humidifier in the bedroom, nasal spray, and aspirating her nose ( Read more... )

Erika started pointing at things in the sky (airplanes, clouds, but mostly birds fascinated her) for about a month now, but lately she's taken a real joy at pointing at everything and smiling when we name it. So it's this parent-child behavior of *point* tree! *point* fish! *point* ball! *point* dog! And she gets a kick out of this ( Read more... )

News reporters are calling it the "February Fury". School was canceled on both Thursday and Friday for me, and our cars are still snowed in, so I bet I'm going to get cabin fever fairly soon ( Read more... )

Winter storm arrived Tuesday night and stayed through Wednesday night. School was closed on Wednesday and Thursday. We ended up getting about 12-inches of snow ( Read more... )

Snow storm of December 19, 2009.

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