We had a fabulous time in Jamaica. Drinks, sun, a tiny bit of rain, and good friends. What more could you ask for? When we left the house for the airport it was snowing. Made it that more exciting to get out of here. Then when we came home it was 18 degrees. A far cry from the 80s we had had the day before as we lay on the awesome bed by the pool. That really seems like ages ago right now. Everyone survived our little vacation, and before they left my parents even asked if we wanted to do it again next year. Um, hell yeah! It was nice to know the kids were in good hands and my parents didn't go berserk. The kids are getting older and just slightly easier.
We got home on Tuesday night, I spend Wednesday with my Mom and Dad and then Thursday drove them to the airport. That's when the weather took a turn. Friday was so cold they called a 90-minute delay to the start of the school day. That meant several unfortunate things for me. First, I had to figure out what 8:40a plus 90 minutes was. I don't need to use that kind of brain power in the morning. It came out to 10:10a, which was my second problem because my class at the gym started at 10a. Not this Friday, no class for me. Third, when there is a delay at the public schools, Amanda's pre-school gets cancelled. So no gym and no school for Amanda. So much for getting back into my rhythm and schedule.
The positive thing was that Andy had Colonial Day at school and because Amanda and I had nowhere else to be we got to go to his class and hear all the presentations and even eat some of the Colonial food. I can tell you why they didn't live that long. All they ate was corn or something derived from corn. And a lot of molasses. Way too many carbs in their lives. Oh, also illness and unsanitary living conditions, but let's stick with the corn. Andy was so glad we were there and it broke up our day so it turned out okay. Plus I learned some pretty interesting things about the colonies. I always learn interesting things when I go hear the kids' presentations. It's like I never learned it before.
I would have been cool with one delayed start, but this week the weather hovered around zero degrees for most of the week so we also had delayed start on Wednesday and Thursday, again ruining my plans for the gym and whatever else I schedule while the kids are in school. By the end of the week Amanda was begging to go to school because hers had gotten cancelled so many times. I understand why they do it. They don't want kids waiting for the bus in crazy negative temperatures, but does 90 minutes make that much of a difference?
Yesterday I took Sarah out to sell Girl Scout cookies because I have been a crappy mom and haven't taken her out yet while other girls in her troop have already gone back for more cases of cookies. Except it was 7 degrees outside. We were only out for about 30 minutes, we just did our cul-de-sac, but I actually thought I was going to get frost bite my toes were so cold. Of course she will not even realize what a sacrifice I made by taking her out into that weather until she has a daughter of her own and is out selling cookies with her and thinks back and says, "Why the HELL did my mom take me out in that crazy cold weather???". Why? Because I was otherwise the "worst mom ever" for promising to take her to sell cookies and not following up on it, regardless of how cold it was.
Today it finally made it up to around 40 degrees and sunny which was like a tropical vacation (okay, not really so since I just went on one and am pretty sure I wasn't wearing a down coat while I was there, but you get my drift) compared to the last several days. If only we had sold cookies today.
So we're back, we're getting into the swing of things, and if you need them, we have cookies.
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