Forecasting Adventurous Weather

Hello, Friends!

I hear that we are to expect a winter storm tonight/tomorrow.  They say it will snow sometime after midnight, and then around noon we will get an ice and sleet storm.  I'm halfway planning for there to be no school tomorrow.  Very dangerous assumption.

I am teaching Grant to play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on the piano.  Slow going, but very fun.

Went on Friday to my Mom's house.  We had a wonderful Valentine's Day tea party with real tea.  The snack menu consisted of fresh strawberries, chocolates, and those little round mini cheeses with Melba toast.  We also had a fancy turkey lunch on Mom's china.  The kids went swimming at The Center, and I even saw Jenn's brother!!!! 

Sunday was a disaster.  Here is an excerpt of an email I sent out just after practice, with the expletives deleted:

"Thursday he talked about changing the practice time today but when I left it was still "maybe", so when I got home from Rolla last night I DOUBLE CHECKED the website. It said practice started at 10, so I left my house at [deleted] 8:40 to get there at 10. Aaaaaaand, I was late. Because it started at 9:30, and no one emailed me...and the website said 10. So, I was annoyed. Super annoyed. And then.

Then.

THEN....the [deleted] Afriky guys DIDN'T SHOW UP! Later, in the car, Michelle was all mad and said, "I could have slept in!!"  [deleted]! I could have stayed home ALL LAST WEEK! AND slept in."

Yes, it's true.  I signed up (under duress) for a "performance" for the benefit of Andrew's collaborators, and they didn't show.  I don't think anyone appreciated that at all.  However, on a better taiko note (Bwahahaha!!! Get it?  Note??), we had a very decent performance practice last night for the Celebrate the World show!  It's looking pretty good!  You're going to come, right?  It's FREE.

Still applying for jobs.  Applied for three of them today instead of resting, like I was supposed to.  Whoops.

The flowers Josh got me didn't hold up too well.  I'll be sad to throw them out.  Maybe I can press a few of the daisies?  They'll look a little pale without roses next to them, but the roses are beyond drying already.

And I almost bought plants at Wal-mart, but didn't. 

Abbie is singing, "Two to Tango" in the kitchen. 

So....just in case we have a snow day tomorrow, I am trying to decide what movies to watch with my kids. 

Well, who can help hoping?  >_<