Re: Blizzard of 2015
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butwhoknows
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Date: January 27, 2015 10:29PM
I ended up hosting an impromptu playdate at my house. Yay (heavy sarcasm here.) School was canceled shortly before 5am. I woke up an hour later, looked at the bare roads and thought "wtf?" but maybe in some parts of the county they were buried in snow. Whatever. Slept for another hour, so that was a bonus (and one that I was deeply grateful for later.....)
So, a few hours (and coffee) later, the impromptu playdate happened. Northern Virginia is fine, but Boston and NY got pasted bigtime, evidently. Our guests mom got stuck (airline stewardess) from all of the cities with cancelled flights and it took her 3 extra flights to get home. After nearly 2 days without sleep, and dealing with stranded, unhappy, whining travelers?
....well, duh. So the kiddos played at my house while she slept. With a bunch of lively kids in my house, and a bitch of a headache as the cherry on the top of my sundae? My goal was to merely survive.
I booted up all of the computers so they could play minecraft, dragged out the legos and all of the my little pony s**t, and told them "no lessons - have fun!" and hid in the bedroom with a book. Kept the door open so I can be certain they were setting the house on fire or mauling the cat, but otherwise I was like The World's Laziest Mom today. Sorry. I have my hero days - today was not one of them.
Lunch was chicken nuggets and chips (yep, bad mom). I survived the Non-Blizzard/Really S****y Day of 2015. This was one of those days when I remember why I don't have a Duggar-sized family.
Thanks for listening to me rant. For what it's worth, at least I got to sleep in, so I don't resent having a snow day. However, I wish Aunt Flo would have decided to postpone her visit another day instead of coming to visit tonight. That, on top of everything else, made this day pretty crappy.