Indeed, a snow day

School was indeed canceled for Tuesday (2/16/10). I was a bit worried for a while, because I went out, as I have been lately, all cocky, but when I returned, I went through my neighborhood, and ended up getting in some pretty treacherous areas that I just felt like weren't very safe for the kids. Baltimore City was just about the last school to cancel, and I felt a little bad about it - news stories have been featuring the community coming together to shovel sidewalks, Dr. Alonso all but guaranteed we would be back to school - but it got to the point where I felt like they were holding out because of stubbornness, a dogged determination to have school to show how tough Baltimore City was. I'm glad cooler heads prevailed, because it just wouldn't be safe to have the kids walking to school or waiting at bus stops in the current conditions. The news did an interesting story today where they showed a snowbank that was actually a bus stop, and you couldn't see the kid behind it at all.

The question is, now, when will we head back? I'm going into the school tomorrow to get some work done and make sure I'm ready to go. I think we'll probably be in on Wednesday, probably with a delay, and would like it to be a really studious day because I'll be having to fight the kids' instincts to go a little nuts their first day back in a week and a half. We'll see.