The Nelson Narrative

The girls are on mid-winter break this week.  I simultaneously love and hate school breaks. Pros: I don't have to make lunches the night before I only have to get myself ready in the morning, not supervise the girls or fix their breakfast. No homework Usually no after school activities (gymnastics, music lessons, etc.) Cons: Finding childcare. Girls staying up later (less "me" time). I finally have a teeny bit of PTO built up (mostly saving for our cruise this summer and for sick days) so I was able to take today off (yesterday was a company holiday) and Paul has Friday off.  So we just needed a sitter for 2 of the days but so far we only have one for tomorrow.  But if worst comes to worst I can take another PTO day or a personal holiday on Thursday. Anyway, we've had a fun few days so far.  Yesterday we broke out some new painting supplies and had a fun painting session.  I just looked on Pinterest for...

It started snowing yesterday and sure enough, school got cancelled.  The plan was for Paul to stay home with the girls, since I stayed home with Kayley one day a few weeks ago when she wasn't feeling well, but this morning we decided that I should stay home as well as road conditions just didn't warrant trying to go in.  We had about a foot this morning and it had stopped snowing but now it has started again.  There's a good chance school will be cancelled tomorrow as well. The park down the street has some good sledding hills, so we did that this morning.  Lots of our friends were there and it was really fun. Now I'm panicking that I might get called in to work, as we have a lot of power outages and some of the storm bases have opened.  I really don't want to have to work all night, so I'm hoping that most of the outages are restored today.