Snow Day (a new horror film)

Don't let that pastoral picture fool you—this day was awful. So awful that I don't even want to blog about it because it would mean reliving it, and really, you might fall asleep because the minutia of it is really a big old bore.

But I will share a few things I learned today:

1. Two parents shouldn't be sick at the same time. Especially when one
of them still has to go in to work and the other one still has to look
after three children. Thank goodness Tom left early, which helped avert tragedy, I'm fairly certain.

2. Snow days and my children don't mix. I'm sure for some people it is glorious, but for me it means three crazy children in a confined space where they have blown through every activity we have by 9:45am. Then they have the whole rest of the day to argue, pick at each other, and press my buttons.

3. Sometimes you can yell at your children so much in one day that your throat hurts. (I'm not proud of this, but it is true.)

4. Most kitchen thermometers are no longer made with mercury. See? I've just saved you 45 minutes of panicky phone calls to poison control and the thermometer manufacturer, you know, just in case you make donuts to try to keep the crazies less crazy and then you only realize after everyone has eaten a donut that the base of the thermometer exploded into the cooking oil somewhere during the process without you noticing.

5. Tomorrow is another day. Hopefully, much better.