Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Cold Days

My kids have never had a snow day.

In Caracas, Margarita had some days off thanks to Mr. Chavez and his political craziness...

In Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico, they had lots of days off for flooding (oh how I don't miss that place)...

In Mexico City, they never had a day off, but it did take them 4 hours to get to school once due to some very bad traffic...

In Rio, they had days off due to flooding and days locked in their bulletproof classrooms while the drug lords and police battled it out right next door to their school...

Yesterday and today the kids have been off NOT due to snow-but to extreme temperatures so we're calling them "cold days" instead of "snow days". We have very little snow-just lots of cold. At times, it's been almost -30 with the windchill factor. The funny thing is, on Saturday we were up hiking in the mountains in short-sleeved shirts; the high that day was in the upper 60's. That's Colorado for you.

So, we've been hanging out, watching movies, having play dates-it's 11:30 and I'm still in my jammies-that sort of thing. Actually, it's kinda cool because everything is still open and the roads are clear-so we can get out of the house and get a break from all the "togetherness" when necessary. Margarita's bowling right now, Julio went to a movie yesterday. Juan Carlos had a sleepover here last night-they finally went to sleep around 11:30 and they were up this morning at 5:30, running around the house with all the lights on. Not exactly how I wanted to spend my "cold day" when I normally get up at 6:45. I'm sure we'll suffer a meltdown later today.

But the kids are thrilled! And I have to admit, it's nice to get a break from all of the running and activities. The only one suffering is poor Guapo with his "OC" blood-he just can't get warm. The guy is a human popsicle. And Quakey, too-he hates the cold. He took one step out the door this morning and squatted right then and there and ran back inside.

The missionaries just showed up to shovel my driveway-how nice is that?

Well, hope you're all warm.

6 comments:

nikko said...

Same thing here! Saturday it was 75° -- we were outside a lot. Tuesday the weather came and now we have temps in the teens! Crazy!

I wish we could get out and about -- our roads are all icy. Have fun!

Abby said...

I remember having a couple of those in Iowa as a kid. And one week we had "hot days" where we got out of school at noon every day for a week one September my senior year of high school (the school had one non-air conditioned wing). It was school in the morning, pool in the afternoon!

I think I have OC blood too--but how did that happen??

I love that you're linking to past posts lately--makes me want to go back and read every one. You've had lots of adventures:)

Kari said...

All my years living in Colorado, and we never had a "cold day!" Go figure. Just a school district notorious for never canceling school, and the ONE blizzard that froze the whole city happened...during Christmas break! Oh well. I went back to your flooding post. Some memories don't really fade with age, do they? :)

Stephanie said...

I can't imagine the flooding, and the smell. I can understand being glad to be away from that!

Lynne said...

I love the locked in the classroom due to drug lords and police comment. I guess I shouldn't say I loved it but it gave me a laugh. I'm sure you weren't laughing--but you're kids will have amazing stories.

Ballerina Girl said...

the only thing warm here right now is my house!
there were some pretty ice crystals on the trees this morning though...got back too late to take pictures, but hopefully they will be there tomorrow morning too...

love,
BG