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[mrsacurrin]

A weekly recap:

Monday we did London's birthday celebration. I made a cake, my father in law brought over dinner, and afterwards, he opened his gifts. He is in love with the Imaginext Batcave that he got from Matthew's Dad. And the owl portable night light he got from us. He also got Planes on dvd, some clothes, a large Doodle Pro and some books

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[mariediocre]

We were under an active warming here as well during Xander's nap time. Our cover area is the hall connected to his room so I said the hell with it, lied to Julie (who was totally freaked the hell out) and said it was just very rainy, strategically kept her close by and had everything I would need in an emergency within arms reach of that hallway so I could literally have the kids in there in about 15 seconds. HATE tornadoes. It's funny, I used to be chest tight and hyperventilating panicked about tornadoes but once Julie was old enough that she started acting that way my fears massively resolved themselves so I can now go into comfort and protect mode for my kids. Gotta love mothering instinct. Only tornado I ever actually lived through was right off of the back gate for SJAFB, by Green-something school. It was when SJAFB had the old housing, hell, the road we lived on doesn't even exist anymore, and it freaked me out. Julie was about 2 months old or so and a friend drove her and her boys over to stay with me to keep me from losing my marbles. The base siren going off was pretty much the worst moment of my life, lol.

As for the cold, I'm glad the delayed. Hell, selfishly I wish they'd just canceled. Sheesh. It wasn't like it magically got warmer after 2 hours. Julie's school has mobile classrooms that are poorly insulated and no decent heat systems in most of the buildings to push the heat hard enough. Not to mention her school has open air "hallways" so to go between classes they HAVE to leave the building. For Julie it was no big deal, she can tolerate and loves the cold just like me, but so many kidlets who have thin NC blood were miserable.

[mrsacurrin]

The thing about the cold -- that was my whole thought. I saw some news station listing reasons for the delay. Some were that some of the kids out waiting for the buses don't have warm coats and hats. And that the buses dont have heat blocks like northern buses do. So it takes them longer to heat up. And that the schools have different codes/regulations so they aren't as warm.

If that's the case ... don't just DELAY school, cancel it. People are going to joke and laugh, if they've come from up north. But so what? I laughed ... but only because WHAT IS TWO HOURS GOING TO DO?

Sure it will give more time to get the buses a little warmer. But two hours didn't make much difference in the temps outside. So those same kids that have no coats probably don't have great home lives, and sat around a cold home, some probably without food because they rely on the free lunch/breakfast programs at school to eat, sadly. Then they still had to go outside two hours later, in the still cold, to wait for the bus to take them to school. They wound up getting their lunch, and probably a bit warmer of a place to be ... but still.

I just don't get what a delay would help, really! LOL

The tornado -- I was like you. I wasn't too scared, probably because I've never really dealt with one to know exactly how alarming they can be. The kids werent too concerned because they didn't know what was going on. But didn't enjoy being forced to stay put in the tub, either. I was glad it passed quickly!

[mariediocre]

LOL, we might have gloves somewhere. Maybe? I don't know. Last Christmas the kids were in short sleeves, Year before that it was 70-something degrees for weeks straight. I'll never forget, for Julie's second Christmas I visited family in PA and it didn't occur to me to take warm clothing o.O As soon as we got there we had to go out and buy her a mini wardrobe and a real coat!! NC doesn't know what to do with "winter."

I don't know why but around 8ish I started being FREAKED about tornadoes. Never experienced one but still freaked. Julie seems to be of the same mind, though add in hurricanes to that mix. Every storm, "do you think it is a hurricane???" No dear, we'd have a LOT of warning if it was a hurricane. Poor thing. Glad to hear the kids weren't scared, though, and VERY glad you guys were safe!