Happy Valentine's Day

We had a 2 hour delay this morning.  Our county still has many many families without power.  We had an ice storm Tuesday into Wednesday and it knocked out many neighborhoods and households.  Luckily, we never lost power, but many friends close by us did and still do not have it restored.  

So, we had 2 snow days - get this... one is going to be made up next Saturday!  Yes!  Saturday school for us!  The other one has not been determined when it will be made up.  We already had 4 snow days to make up which added to the end of the year (pushing it to a Friday, so they don't want to have to spill into the next week) and taking away all Teacher Workdays for the remainder of the year.  

I will post pictures of the ice at our house soon.  It was about 1/2" thick on many surfaces and branches.  We didn't lose any limbs, luckily.  

Later today, we are having a Valentine's Day party at school.  It was supposed to be yesterday, so it might be a little tricky to squeeze it in today with the 2 hour delay and the teacher having 2 days to make up for.  But, we are going to do 3 little crafts and then go outside and play tug-of-war and play with the parachute. We decided to skip the snack at this party since the kids will surely bring home candy from their classmates.  Carl was disappointed to hear that even though he never likes the sweet party treats anyway.    

back to this morning.....  a 2 hour delay gives us time for a bigger breakfast!  

 The pink is just food coloring, but Gretchen has chocolate pancakes, too.   We just discovered recently that all you have to do is add Nesquik powder to the batter and it is just what she is looking for!

Happy Valentine's Day!!