Snow Days Cause Havoc!

Normally, school staff are just as excited about snow days as their students are. This time, I found myself hoping that the snow would melt.

We have had 5 days of very wintery weather.  The snow started Thursday at about noon.  As the snow continued to fall, heavily, I decided that I had better prepare.  In case we didn't have school on Friday, I would need to be prepared for Monday.  Monday would be my last day at my current school and I wanted it to be a smooth sail.  I pulled all my books for my lessons.  I made sure all the returned books were shelved.  I cleared off my desk so I could see what the heck was going on! Then, I went home and watched the snow fall.

Sure enough, school was cancelled for Friday. The snow was beautiful but we didn't get to enjoy it.  Kaden had a gymnastics meet in Tacoma.  Jim was supposed to take him and I was staying to get work done.  Since I had the day off, I decided to go also.  We were a little worried about the snow and the trip up was a little dicey for the first part.  We got there and enjoyed the meet.  All during the meet my sister was texting me and telling me about all the snow that was falling in Portland.  We had originally planned to stay the night and come home Saturday but we looked at the weather reports and decided it would be better to come home Friday night.  The trip back was slow but otherwise uneventful.

Saturday was fun.  The kids and Jim went sledding, I took the dog for a walk in the snow.  I read a ton of my book and we just hung out and watched the snow.  By the end of the day we had about 8 inches of snow.  Then the freezing rain started.  When we woke up on Sunday morning, we had 8 inches of snow, topped by 1/2" of ice.  Driving was treacherous.  there wound up being no school on Monday either.

Unfortunately, Monday was supposed to be my last day and was supposed to be the day I trained my replacement.  That wasn't going to work!  I ended up working Tuesday at my old school, they had a sub at my new school and my replacement was able to be with me for most of Tuesday afternoon.  I don't feel like I trained her well at all, but at lease she got to see how I do things.