So, I understand that it’s freezing cold and miserable back home right now. In my hometown, “a major ice storm that had been forecast and feared for the past few days appeared about to come true.” Oh, the foreboding! Worse, though, is this news:
Oh no! Kansas City International, sleepiest international airport ever, shut down? I guess it still sucks if you’re trying to fly in or out, though.
In light of such cold and suffering, I thought you might like to see a few of my pictures from today:
Ivan, going to town on the monkey bars.
Ivan and Lola, looking down from the lofty heights of the rope bridge that doesn’t even clear my shoulders.
Minnie, sporting uncharicteristic braided pigtails.
Thomas. He looks so serious, but I think it’s really just squintiness from the bright, warm, sun.
Possibly more than any other kid in the class, Peggy loves to have her picture taken. She’s got the same reaction to the camera that cats in comic strip (Garfield, Get Fuzzy) have to the sound for a can opener - somehow, she knows there’s a camera out and comes running, no matter what she was doing before.
Lola, Ivan, and Finian on the alligator teeter-totter. If you only ever saw these pictures, you might even think this is something that happens more than once every 3 or 4 weeks!
Elin with a rare smile. I think it’s my favorite picture from today? She doesn’t usually like to have her picture taken, but today, while she was playing, she didn’t seem to mind to much.
Oh, and one last thing - another video from yesterday. This one was shot during the afternoon, when official learning time is over and kids are playing while they wait to go home. There are kids from all three classes in the room, but the featured players are all mine.
(Mom, take the time to watch - there’s a minor tribute around the 50-second mark!)
December 11, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hey Lisbeth- The ice was bad enough to shut down Pitsco until 12:00 noon on Monday. There are about 5000-6000 people in Pittsburg w/out power. I am one of the lucky ones tho, our power never went out for very long. I enjoy reading your post everyday, but I miss our daily chats. You look great in your pictures, awesome job on your weight loss. Take care.
December 12, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Wow - Pitsco closed? That’s bad for sure! Mom said it was really bad down there, and it was bad enough in Topeka to cancel school!
I miss our chats too - I don’t have anything like that here, unless you count when Seth, but he’s my hubby, so it really isn’t the same!
December 19, 2007 at 5:08 am
The library closed for 2–count them–two days. Of course, one of those was a Sunday so perhaps that only counts as half a day. Still, quite an impressive feat (& I didn’t even think the streets were that bad, but I didn’t get the car out until Tuesday after the melting began. Just walked the dog wearing my Yaktrax, quite possibly the best invention of all time) And our forecasted 7″ of snow last weekend turned out to be 2″ so we lucked out. Back to sunshine & 52 today.