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Friday
Dec142007
Thwarted.
This is what happens when you and your husband take the day off so you can go out to lunch together and shop for the kids:
SNOW. LOTS OF IT.(this is the result after the first half hour or so...
many more hours to go)
And if you are at all familiar with New England, you know that the first big snowstorm means widespread panic! speculation! runs on bread and milk! lines at the gas station! sold-out shovels-salt-scrapers! and school cancellation! Oh, and also storm coverage, all day long on every television channel! (Because now that you are staying home all day, looking out the window at the snow, the first thing you want to do is also watch the snow coming down on t.v. stations. Look! It's also snowing in Dracut and Marlborough and Salem. What about Brookline? Yup, there too.) You would think that we hearty, crusty New Englanders had never seen snow before.
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Here's the same view, several hours later
The kids are keeping their fingers crossed
for a snow day tomorrow...
Yes, the kids were sent home early from school because of the pending, predicted snow storm (and lucky for them, it really did snow or I would have stormed the school offices myself). Goodbye, lovely day date with Greg.
However.
On the bright side, we are finally finishing decorating the tree, reading books curled up on the sofas, making cookies, grading papers (I'm setting a 6-per-day quota to save myself from insanity), thinking up our Christmas card, shopping online, and just being cozy and homey. It's a gift of a day, merry and white.
Updated to add...
^Here's the same view, several hours later
The kids are keeping their fingers crossed
for a snow day tomorrow...
Friday, December 14, 2007 | 3 Comments 
Reader Comments (3)
I'm a little jealous, here in Atlanta it was 70 degrees - un-seasonably warm, even for us! Just talked to my parents in MA, it took my Dad 3 hours to get from Cambridge to Northboro! I don't miss that part about the snow!
Oh, I have to say my heart goes out to you. There is nothing like that first, panicked snowstorm in New England. Somehow it's exciting until about May. When it's still happening.
We had all these crazy ice storms last week (not by us, but here in MO). Josh had all these panicked co-workers calling in to see if they would close the office. Because none of it was by our house, and they didn't have the 24/7 weather headlines like MA, we assumed everyone else was seeing the same weather as us. He laughed at everybody and made them all come in. Turns out, it was bad in lots of areas and people had no power. He felt bad once we found out what it was like. Oops!
Those 2 pictures were fabulous...I was all gasping when I saw the second one. It looks kind of magical (when you aren't the one dealing with it.) Sorry about your date!