another home day

and the call came at 5:30am - no school today either! poor daddy doesn't get a day off of work and he had to make a very long drive today. boo. i felt a little guilty about getting to sleep in and hang out at home all safe and warm. today was a little more low key after all of yesterday's excitement. we played, painted, made soft pretzels and watched a few movies.

not having grown up with the possibility of "snow days," i was not familiar with all of the rituals required in creating a day off from school. first comes the wearing of pjs inside out and backwards. the kids have been doing this for four days now. i guess madelyn's teacher suggested it and she shared this wisdom with her brothers. second is flushing ice cubes down the toilet. apparently, one of madelyn's classmates flushed a popsicle and not an ice cube on tuesday night and that is why they had school on wednesday - it only works with ice cubes. next come a whole list of others that they covered on the news last night - a penny under your pillow, a spoon under your pillow, running around your kitchen table backwards, etc. who knew?

it did occur to me that the kids went four or five weeks after christmas break before they had a full five-days of school last year because of weather and holidays. so we will see what next week brings us. tomorrow is going to be by far the coldest, -20 with wind chill at 8am. we just got a call canceling swimming lessons for madelyn in the morning.

it is nice to be told to stay home and warm. love.