donutsweeper

So if the temp drops down even further you're set! Who's up for some snow! *snickers*

We *had* snow! Last week on the 10th. The first time we've had snow that early since the 40s. It was very weird. We usually only get snow (when we do at all - it's generally about once a decade) in January or February. I stood on my porch in my robe and watched it come down. ;-) It was all gone by morning, though. :-(

It wasn't until the 11th that I remembered the gloves and scarf, though. ;-)

but now you're set. just in case there's more snow. Maybe you'll even get enough for it to stick! Of course that means the entire city would probably shut down, but minor detail!

Yeah, it does shut down. Had the temperature not risen, we would have been shut down on the 11th. As it was, a school district on the east side of the city (they got the most snow) had a delayed opening.

"Limited" is a good word to describe our de-icing situation. :-)

schools almost never close here. Like, once a decade. Which depresses my kids to no end.

It depresses my kid when they close - she loves school. :-) I suspect it has more to do with her friends being there than anything else. :-)

and then there's always the bummer when you actually HAD finished your homework or were all ready for that test

Oh, yeah! Like last night when she ended up staying up until 4 to finish a major project. If she'd ended up being shut out of school today, I think there might have been bloodshed. ;-)

Yipes. Good thing the weather wasn't that bad then!

Until 4?!? Highschooler then?

Yep. She's 14. She's going through some serious struggles this year. She's spent her whole school life in gifted and talented programs and just kinda slid through. *This* year, she's in an *all* G/T high school and it's something of an adjustment for her. Some of her classes remind me a great deal of college courses. She can *do* it, but she's going through a serious adjustment period. ;-) Kid's not used to seeing a "C" anywhere on her progress reports. :-)

that'll be my daughter in 2 years when she enters h.s. and goes from small, amazingly supportive Montessori to "big" public school

Oddly enough, mine went from a huge middle school to tiny high school. ;-) 1600 students in her middle school to 400 (total) in her high school (you have to test into it and have teacher recs, too). I'm so glad they aren't doing any hand holding. Fortunately, they *do* provide for freshman to go through an adjustment period, but if she doesn't keep her grades up next semester, she could find herself bounced to a regular high school.

This would be bad.

We're zoned for an *excellent* school, but I foresee nothing but trouble if she winds up there. Nothing worse than bored bright kid.

there are some great schools here, and they're used to kids coming from privates too so I think there's some hand holding as well.

Oh yes, bright and bored does not end well....

We're lucky to have excellent public schools (well, some of them are excellent - we're still working on the ones that aren't so much). I just hate the hand holding. It never helps and just sets the kids up for failure later.

here the schools are very scattershot. The reason the kids are in private in the first place was when we went and visited the school they were assigned we had a lovely tour which ended on the high note of 'now the calls to the police are down to two or three a month!"

0_o erm, no thanks.

One of the reasons I live where I do is because the schools this apartment is zoned for are excellent. We also have the option for using "school choice" to go elsewhere. I just know me and paperwork - I don't have to keep reapplying for the magnet high school, otherwise, we'd be toast. I'm about as organized as a plate of spaghetti. ;-)

we have a sort of open enrollment thing going on too, but it's easier to get into some schools than others. The high schools here are great, but I want to avoid the elementary schools with the knife fights thanks.

Paperwork. Oh yeah. I suck at that

Soooo glad we didn't have that kind of trouble in her elementary school. There were some 'baby gangs' in her junior high, but they never messed with my kid (she and her friends did sometimes mess with them ;-). It probably helped that she was a head taller than the gang members and while slender, would never be mistaken for "willowy". She's got a strong solid build that goes nicely with her "WTF do you think you're *doing*?" attitude. ;-)

Really, she's got all the makings of a kick ass librarian. ;-)

oooh, sound like you have a keeper there.

She's great. She's also falling asleep on the sofa while trying to finish another project. I keep telling her not to wait until the last minute, but she got so used to being able to procrastinate in junior high. It's a hard habit to break.

yes, too easy a trend to continue. Hopefully, she'll learn!

I've got my fingers crossed that she'll carry through with her winter project plans. She's got to read a book and do an assignment during the break. I suggested she get it done *before* Christmas, which would then free her up for the rest of her break to actually *break*. :-)

although I'm thinking a nudge or two might not go amiss. I'll be 'gently' nudging my kids

Yes, nudging is already happening. Nudging as in "have this done before you come home from your dad's". ;-) She only has one major project at home for the break: clean her room. :-) It sounds worse than it is. Or rather, it's as bad as it sounds, but she's been wanting to get the time to get to it and do a serious job - still got elementary school stuff hanging around that never got purged.

sometimes I think a cyclone snuck into my kids rooms when I wasn't looking

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