#5of365 – Gridlock

After having the kids at home for 6 days (2 snow days, 1 teacher professional development day, the weekend, and MLK Day), I woke up this morning channeling my mother – “COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, you’re going to school today!”  I haven’t thought of that phrase for years but I could hear my mother’s voice saying it.  Today’s snowstorm was already in full swing when I woke up, but I think the superintendent was channeling my mother too, and we didn’t have a snow day.  Instead, I waited by the phone for the preschool “early dismissal” call, and sat in gridlock in the elementary school driveway.  People wonder why I work in the middle of the night.  Now you know.

(PS. My mother is alive and well…I was channeling her from Florida, not from the grave.)