Worst Snow Day Ever

And we have a winner...for worst "call" on a bad weather day EVER!  The award goes to Central Texas (the whole region!!) for canceling school by 9:15 pm the NIGHT before anything was even supposed to fall.  Everyone was in disbelief that they would cancel it that early when there was not a single speck of precipitation even close to coming down.  The weatherman was predicting a 10% chance of extremely light precipitation between 4 am and noon.  Well guess what.....NOT.A.DROP.  Yet another scheduled day off, burned up. (or frozen)  I had to really talk myself down quite a few times yesterday about the kids not being in school and not seeing any snow or ice, yet seeing friends on facebook in other areas with LOTS of snow.  Either way we did what we always try to do and put a big ol' fake smile on and make the best of the day!  We did get a lot of things accomplished and ended up with a really enjoyable spontaneous "day off". 

This is the face of a perturbed Central-Texas-Snow-Day Parent.

We decided to redo the girls room since we were stuck inside from all the nonsnow drifts.  The girls had been wanting to go back to bunk beds so we let them!  They are loving how much more room they have now!  The top bunk is Elle's and we realized yesterday that having the world map near her bed has actually been really good.  Not only has it showed her how many places there are in the world to explore, she has also been studying the Bible lands and can pretty much trace the route of Paul's missionary journey!  wowzer.

Here's a close up of Elle's little area

And for fun I also took pictures of each of the girls other areas in the room...you can kind of tell current personality based on what you see.  Here's Elle's side of the mirrored dresser.

Ava's side (and this is cleaner than usual!)

Elle's arts and crafts corner

Ava's arts and crafts corner

The girls' door

And here they are working away at their class set of Valentine's cards.

 

I've said it before and I'll continue to say it, life is what you make of it.  Attitude is everything!  But seriously, no more nonsnow snow days please.