Ice Ice Baby

If you've watched the weather channel at all this week you'll know that KC has been getting slopped on. Albeit not as bad as those poor folks in OKC and Dallas but we are now in our third day with sleet and temps in the 20s! Yuck.

It all started Friday afternoon with sleet. I only had 7 kids in my afternoon class of 14. Parents just didn't want to get out in the mess and that was fine by me. By 2:30, though, I only had 2 kids. Yep, you read that right, 2. Many parents chose to come early and again, I don't blame them.

We still had daycare but most parents even picked up early from there too. However, at 5:30, the official end of day care I still had 3 students from 2 families. One family got there at 5:45 and it had taken mom about an hour to get there from i-35 and 75th (yeah yeah, i know, that info is only helpful to those familiar with KC but I don't know the milage.) She was so sweet and warmed up my car, scraped it and put a seatcover on the driver's seat so it would be warm when I got in later.

And it was nice not to have to scrape my car again when I got in at 7:30 that night. Yeah, we had a miscommunication combined with crappy weather that led to a student being in my care for most of the night. We had a fun time, though. We talked, watched cable (woo hoo cable in my room!) and raided the preschool snacks. I wasn't sure how long I would have to wait and I wsn't to keen on driving him home myself without permission from a family member but I did tell my principal that if he was still there at 7:30 we were going to get pizza and I would take him home. Who I really feel bad for is the kid. He had called his mom's work and she had left at 4:00. He was really worried about her and she doesn't have a cell phone so there was no way to reach her. His dad was working late and thus why we had to wait so late because he too does not have a cell phone.

The moral of this story is, make sure you have accurate emergency contact information for your child at his/her school and maybe every parent should have a cell phone, even if it is a pay as you go phone.

Saturday's dance class was cancelled due to weather but Grace and I did manage to get out to get our hair cut. We both are growing our hair out so we can have pretty updos for part 2. Gracie let Alissa wash her hair in the big girl sink. She wasn't too sure about it but mommy held her hand. As we were leaving the salon the sleet started up again so we hurried home.

Sunday brought more sleet and snow. By the afternoon these girls had a bad case of cabin fever so we ran out to target to pick up a few things. It was nice to get out of the house.

The good news is, there is no precipitation called for tomorrow--- just frigid temps so hopefully the road crews can get caught up. :)

Keep warm!