Schools Closed and Polar Vortex

[covergirl82]

School is closed on Friday now too. That means no school since Thursday of last week. Send help!! At least tomorrow is my Friday off (although I need to still do some work to do some catch up from time spent managing kid activities).

[waverly]

We successfully survived bringing 2 kids to work with me. Details in case anyone is interested.

I have a big office that I only share on Tuesdays, with a part time book keeper, with a table and 2 chairs perfect for kiddos. We did not open until noon because it was -21 billion this morning.

No one is as dropping kids off at the childcare places, so they weren’t open at aftercare or park district camp. Camp at park district would have run until 4, so then $20 for aftercare, so it would be $100 for 5.5 hours of work. Not really worth it. We all had cabin fever.

I reviewed how they should behave multiple times, and they did awesome! Kids read books for 45 minutes and iPads for 3 hours. Then I left early. It’s a balmy -4 now!

We got food at McDonald’s earlier and ran off energy at the play structure. DS was much worse behaved then and was in time out twice for not keeping his hands to himself.

[phdmomma]

Thankfully school is back on for tomorrow after 4 days off. Or at least no one has said that they are closed, fingers crossed.

[mellym]

School hasn't been called so I think we're back to normal tomorrow. It will be good for all of us to get back to school/work and socialize. DD3 has a fever and her ears are draining so I'm hoping it's just from ear infections. We started ear drops. I really can't miss another day of work.

[erinshelley21]

We are at a delay right now but people are pissy that we arent closed since everyone around us is.

Did we really have to get all of winter in the month of January? I mean, that better be all of winter. 2 weekends in a row of heavy snow, then polar vortex cold, and more snow.

[polecat8]

We were on a 2 hour delay and then school was cancelled 2 hours later. I'm so over this weather.
Poor DH and the kids have cabin fever from being stuck in the house for 3 days straight.
At least it will be in 50 degrees by Sunday.

[phdmomma]

And the kids did go back to school today! So only one day of school this week, and two days last week (due to scheduled days off and one snow day). I've never been so excited to be back at work.