As of yesterday evening, I was pretty convinced that I was going to leave my daughter on the school sidewalk until it opened again. She reminded me that I could get arrested for that, and plus, it could snow again! And what do you know…school’s closed again today!!!!

Let’s back up…yesterday started at 7:30am with “Mommy…when are we going to play in the snow?” Then at 7:35, then at 7:40…until about 9am when I finally gave in, realizing that if I waited any longer the snow would be gone!!! So, about 5 minutes later, when the snow was gone, we went back inside where the rest of the day was spent “arguing and bargaining” with my 6 year old about cleaning her room. Literally…the rest of the day. Until about 5:30. That’s when it happened…the inevitable…the dreaded moment every mother fears. My precious baby girl, who had Shirley Temple curls up until about the age of 4, came downstairs holding her head. “Mommy, I have a headache”. “Mommy, I was cutting my paper and the scissors slipped, and I accidentally cut a little piece of my hair”. For the next 5 minutes, she kept her hand on her head talking about the “accident”. Then I noticed that the “accident” had spread all over the top of her head. My daughter, whose hair had been mostly the same length about 40 minutes ago, now had 1 inch bangs, which stuck straight up from her head in all directions. Then she showed me the “headache” side. The one inch gash of hair missing from her head!!! She began crying and talking about how she could never go to school looking like this!!!

When my husband returned home from work she refused to take her hand off of her “headache”. We explained that she’d just look more like her Daddy (who shaves his head), and that the hair would grow back. She started bawling, “I can’t end up looking like Daddy”!!! By 8, the hysteria was over and my beautiful baby girl was asleep. She would sleep well and be perfectly rested for a pleasant day of school today!

6:15am Friday…The alarm rings…I turn the television on to check the temperature…WHAT!!! SNOW!!! All of middle Tennessee schools are CLOSED? What will we do? So by 9:30Am, I call my good friend Kathy T. to catch my sanity…Yes, she’d love to get our kids together this afternoon! Yipee! We’ll bring the scissors!

So we meet for lunch, where I automatically feel a sense of relief when I see the look on my good friend’s face. It was the same look I’d just seen in my visor mirror. Yep…her kids are about to end up on the school sidewalk. I am not alone! We proceeded to have our seats and eat, where my daughter put on her perfect princess identity, and Kathy’s girls began the “begging and bargaining”. I am not alone!!!

So here I am, sitting at Kathy’s kitchen table, where we have been almost completely undisturbed for approximately 3 hours. We have checked on the girls…they are all still alive. We are still talking about how obnoxious they are. We are still complaining that their rooms never get cleaned. We are hoping that it’s 70 degrees and sunny on Monday. We are not alone. And aren’t they precious?

The perfect way to spend a snow day…this is happiness!

My beautiful baby…short bangs and all!

Aren’t they precious?

My first post. I’m not so precious.