Thank You APS

Sunday we had snow in beautiful Georgia. There was mass panic. Well, not panic really since most people who live in Atlanta are actually displaced Northerners anyway. Hailey was certainly entertained by it, although her evil parents would not take her to play in it. Still, it was lovely to watch out the window.

On Monday, although there was no snow and a weather forecast of 40 degrees and sunny, the Atlanta Public Schools decided to close all schools for the entire day, not just a few hours in the morning which would have been sufficient for melting any black ice. Hailey’s school closes with APS so she had no school either. Mommy decided that she would have to take the day off too. I really wasn’t too upset about it because Sunday night was particularly sleepless for me. In the morning, I was a little bit nervous about how I was going to entertain Hailey for a whole day when I was exhausted and hurting and cranky myself.

However, it turned out to be a fabulous day. We ran a few errands, bought Hailey new big girl cups to replace her sippy cups, went to a place with lots of moonwalks for jumping, took a two hour nap together, and had friends over for dinner. Hailey was a very good girl and Mommy ended up more rested than when she started the day, which is always a pleasant surprise. So, thank you APS for being so incompetent as to needlessly close schools for the day. It was just what the doctor ordered.