inside out jim jams with a spoon under your pillow
Sometimes the old magic is strongest. Last night, the girls turned their jim jams* inside out and slept with spoons under their pillows. This primitive appeal to the snow spirits was heard, and this morning, Fulton county schools have canceled classes for the day giving the girls their second ever no-school-snow-day. Not only that, but the ice cream factory has canceled all meetings and made office hours optional today, so I will be working from home.
*We had some British next door neighbors for a while when Finn and Fallie were younger, and a few of their expressions stuck. Jim jams can also refer to the D.T.’s, so it also has that going for it. Also, most of the kids in our neighborhood still refer to bicycle training wheels as “stabilizers.”
southern snowstorm
Archival photograph from the biggest snow day we have had in Atlanta (even better than this one). It was not good sledding snow, but it was perfect for rolling huge snow man torsos and crunchy exploding snowballs. The dirty dirty is supposed to get wicked cold next week, so maybe we will get to do it again.
(left to right: floyd, orangina, mumblelard, fallie, finn)
bus stop
We usually walk to and from the bus stop, but yesterday, we picked the girls up in the van. They had a substitute bus driver who got lost; they were thirty minutes late. Also, always, always take a book or you will wind up taking pictures of the power lines looking wobbly through the rainy windshield to kill the time.
Finn and Fall with chocolate and butterscotch and powdered sugar Snow Day pancakes.
(This was their first ever wake up and find out that school is cancelled snow day)
Snow day hike with Finn and Fall.
(This was their first ever wake up and find out that school is cancelled snow day)
