What a Difference a Week Makes

Last Tuesday we had started on our three day snow event , which turned into a three and a half day school vacation and dumped more snow than the Charlotte area has seen since 2004. Today the temps are forecast to hit the mid sixties, and even beyond into the 70's tomorrow and Thursday. The snow is mostly melted already except for patches here and there and the big snow-plow piles in the parking lots. (No I did not actually see a snow plow, nor have I actually seen one in nearly 7 years of living here but I am assuming the snow in the grocery store parking lots did not get piled up in human sized mounds by itself). At any rate I am assuming all remaining trace of the white stuff will be gone in short order!

We stayed pretty busy during the snow itself and over the weekend. Ben slept at a friend's house one night, and his friend came here for a sleepover one night (his mom was so desperate to get him out of the house that she walked him the mile and a half to our house in the snow), Ben had a play date at another friend's house, Becca had a play date and also attended a birthday party, and both kids had basketball practice and games and went to see the Lego movie.

The kids went back to school yesterday. They lost two days of their spring break and a teacher work day at the end of March in order to make up for the days missed last week, and yesterday and today are make up days for the two days missed the end of January. I had the day off yesterday, and I spent it being waaaaaay too productive-- Signed Ben up for flag football, stopped at the health food store for a couple of Caroline's things, stopped at the grocery store for a couple items Joel hadn't been able to get over the weekend (the bread aisle was LITERALLY EMPTY on Sunday), did 3 loads of laundry, straightened up all of the kids' bedrooms and the bonus room (found five empty cans of Coke Zero under the bed, now I know how Ben stays up during sleepovers), did the dishes, changed some light bulbs,and read 120 pages of Divergent all before Ben and Becca got home from school. Phew. Today I am back at work and after a sluggish start I am blazing through my to-do list almost faster than new items are piled onto it ;) LOL. Here's hoping for illness-free good-weather for the rest of the winter!