Well, school called on account of cold. This being the south, they just quiver at the thought of anything cold falling from the sky...even though it didn't start sleeting until 8:30 (when most/all kids and adults would be at work) and within a few hours it was 34 degrees, so it was just wet. Y'all are wimps!(my view 90% the day)
However, homeschooling doesn't have snow days, at least not when mom-teacher decides it is too wet of weather and catching up is the greater priority. Have to hand it to the neighbor kids, they tried to lure mine away, but alas, mom-teacher is smarter!! So, once the minions were back under my control, the day continued as could be expected. Oldest hiding away in her room, next one trying to appear productive, but not, third one emptying dishwasher, cleaning room, ANYTHING to not have to do school (sound familiar?), fourth one, doesn't get dressed, forgets to eat breakfast, escapes to sled down the hill with neighbor on my cookie sheets. Mom-teacher finds him 20 min later and yells at him to return to the house...he is soaking wet and cold to the bone, so it doesn't matter that he is still wearing pajamas, right?--he is now coughing and sneezing and gaging..gee, wonder why? 0_o (He finally did settle in and do his schoolwork).
Fifth one I had to remind fifty times to eat, get dressed, and brush teeth. It helped that I then just sat down with squirmy(#7), child #2 and child #5 to do history...they are having a blast looking at pictures of Louis XIV---they just think there is something seriously wrong with men having those fancy long curly wigs, lace and satins....Retreat to my roomwith squirmy to nurse and sit with #6 watching 'Backyardagains.' I'm no longer in the classroom with school kids, so neighbor kid makes second attempt. I come out from my bedroom to find them all in the kitchen...my kids have the attention span of gnats!!! Don't worry, I got back at them, ya see, the weather man predicted icy-snow conditions at 3am, so feeling sorry for the outside dog, I thought I'd let him sleep inside. What I didn't know is that the kids forgot to feed him yesterday, so he knocked down the kitchen garbage can, which was full because someone forgot to take it out after dinner, and proceeded to cover the entire kitchen floor with what we had thrown out, minus, of course, any food particles of interest. Those who became distracted by little boys dressed in snow gear, bringing great promises of fun in the wintery weather, became my minions and got to clean the kitchen floor...mwwaa, haa, haaa!
Exhaustion set in... it was only 10:30 in the morning. Thank goodness it turned into a cold, lazy day and the kids mournfully looked outside as the weather turned to rain and NO SNOW. Begrudingly they returned to their desks, with the promise of getting to play the Wii later (for PE, of course!). Squirmy is now crawling all over and I tried to video her, but I am pretty ignorant with all these new technologies and for some reason can't seem to get it to download...will get the kids on that soon enough, but here are some recent
pics to catch you up on our lives....
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