I have a balmy 17 degrees at noon in PA

• Surely I am not the only one - who is sick
  • It has been summer here but - we'd rather it be cold because
  • Here in NC, - Misha
  • I'm with you - LinK
  • Well, 70s here in the south. Boys outside all day playing basketball sm - mom of 3
  • We are up to 5 inches of snow since this AM with more coming...sm - Hating winter
  • I have a balmy 17 degrees at noon in PA - PAMT~MDM
  • Sick of snow...sick of cold...sm - ks
  • 45 here; heat on or windows open today? (nm) - Snellville, GA
  • I like winter, especially since I dont have to get out - in it. nm

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At night, it's been below 0 for the past 3 days and never getting about 15 during the day.

In the beginning of winter, we were getting ice storms and now we're getting little nuisance snows no more than 1-3" at a time, but it snows every couple days. This is the first year we've had a winter like this in years. Usually, we don't go below freezing all winter except 1 or 2 weeks in Jan. or Feb.

How long until spring?

I had a holy faded T-shirt with Tweety bird (you could barely see him anymore!) and a pair of baggy sweat pants that I wore with big pink fuzzy house slippers!  Until I got caught several times with a little old lady from my church stopping by to say high, salesman knocking on the door, and the final straw was my nice looking neighbor stopping buy to borrow my ladder.  I finally decided perhaps I should brush my teeth and come my hair just in case!

Now, I get up every morning, take a shower, fix my hair, and put on my makeup.  Then I get the kids off to school and I sit down and work.  I have found that, believe it or not, I am way more productive than I used to be.  I'm not distracted thinking about when am I going to make time for a shower.  I still wear jeans and a T-shirt and my house slippers, but now no one can catch me looking like a worn out old hag anymore.    And now that I'm single, well ya never know when you might bump into Mr. Right.

Hasn't rained in the past 3 days, frogs were singing some' fierce last night, so I know storms will be here at some point today! 

Our kids were dismissed early last Thursday because of afternoon snow showers (better to be safe than sorry).  They also decided before sending them home on Thursday to close on Friday due to expected cold temperatures.  Temps were the same as today, yet we go to school today.  I don't get it.  We were off Monday for an in-service day, but they always schedule that on King day.  So why be off Friday but not today?  I'm guessing some higher-ups wanted a 4-1/2-day weekend.

Back in my day (I'm 34), we went to school unless it snowed 2 feet or we got an ice storm.  We never got off because it was "too cold".  I asked the school secretary about this, who's close to my age, and she agreed about "our day" and said she thinks it has to do with so many parents letting their kids stand at the bus stops for 1/2 hour or more because they don't want to get dressed and drive them to the bus stop and not dressing the kids properly.  She said you wouldn't believe the number of kids she sees at school dressed in shorts, etc, in the middle of winter.  We live in the Northeast, so it's not like we expect it to be warm this time of year. 

I just will never understand some parents.  I drive my kids to school every day even though they're on the bus route.  The busses are just too cold in the morning and they'd have to get up 1/2 hour earlier and we already get up at 7:15 to be at school by 8.  I let them ride the bus home in the afternoon because the buses are warmed up 1/2 hour from picking up the high schoolers first and my kids are only on the bus for 15 minutes.  I also make sure my kids have hat, gloves and scarves when it's cold.  They don't always wear 'em, but they're in their backpacks if they need them.  Why don't some parents care?

Sorry -- off my soapbox.  This was just s'posed to be about the weather.   It's cold here -- BRRRRR