Snow Day!

We woke up this morning to ten inches of snow! It's the most snow I've ever seen in my life. St Margaret's was the only school in the area to still be open. Snow days are decided by the individual headteachers here rather than the school district. At 7.30 this morning I got a text saying that school would definitely be OPEN. Our headmistress prides herself on things like this. Last year we had the school BBQ during a rainstorm. One of the other local school's had planned their's for the same night but cancelled. St Maggie's is obviously made of sterner stuff.

Tobes had been running a temperature all weekend so he was staying home anyway but Rosie had nursery in the afternoon. At 12.30 I rang the school to make sure that the afternoon nursery was still on and they assured me that it was so Rosie and I bundled up and trooped off to school. We arrived at 1.00pm and at 1.05pm I got a text saying that the school had decided to start letting the students leave from 1.30pm! I ended up staying in the nursery and playing with Rosie for half an hour then we bundled up and headed out again.

Most of the parents were already picking up their kids and going over to Manor House Gardens. I texted Jason and he and Toby met us there. We had the most fantastic time! All the parents had a huge snowball fight. We were worse than the children. Snowmen were made and hot chocolates were drunk. We live in such a great community of families. So many of Rosie and Toby's friends and their families were out enjoying the snow. When I was growing up it seems like I was always part of a big fun gang of children, either my cousins or all the kids on Loyce. I've always wanted the same for my children and it seems like we've accomplished that here. By the time we headed home we were all happy and exhausted.