Just outside of KC,Mo. with a lovely 8 degrees this morning. nm

• What's the temperature where you live today? - dieshu
  • Just outside of KC,Mo. with a lovely 8 degrees this morning. nm - sm
  • high of 25, low of 1 tonight, nebraska! - nm
  • About 60 and it has been our coldest January in like 28 years. My neighboring town got - a bit of snow a couple weeks ago, which is unheard
  • brrr - MT in MT
  • northeast WI - 19 degrees, occasional snow--nm - ks
  • 77 partly cloudy at 2 pm EST in..... - Fort Lauderdale, Florida........n/m
    • Oh - I miss Fort Lauderdale (sm) - KC
  • 39 and snowing in Virginia Beach - sm
  • 34 right now, central Oregon coast range.... - mteagle
  • in the midwest, we're having a (sm) - an
  • Weather - LinK
    • COLD!! - cassie
    • -23, lots of artic wind, and colder still tomorrow. - Jai
      • Oh, yuck - LinK
        • North Dakota. :D Freeze in winter/fry in summer ;) - Jai

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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

Thanks for sharing it.....My Mom's 1004 miles away.... I'm sure you've called her by now to get all the "how to's" for your first turkey and all the trimmings...She'll be delighted to give you all the secret family recipes....Have a great Thanksgiving!  Cat      

You were a beautiful bride.  Your sis looks great in her costume!  I have a twin also, but she's six years younger than me . . . just needed to gestate a little longer than I did, I guess.

Thanks for sharing!

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! 

My account (for almost 9 years now) is a large children's hospital, but I've yet to hear "snot" or "boogers" dictated.  They usually just say "nasal discharge" or "mucus." 

Speaking of which, is anyone else grossed out by those Mucinex commercials?  I don't know why, because I don't have a weak stomach, but those commercials with the green, jumping, talking, dancing mucous/phlegm balls make me sick!  I can't change the channel fast enough.  It might be a great product, but I'll never buy it.  YUK! 

Eeewww.  What a disgusting topic.  Sorry! 

My 9-year-old son was late for school and had to run upstairs and get his homework.  He was running down the stairs, which he has been told a million times not to, when he slipped on the carpeted steps and proceeded to glide down about ten stairs.  I heard the ruckus and went running towards the sound of disaster.  There lay my son in a heap on the ground holding his side and moaning as loud as he possibly could.  I kept asking what happened and my daughter was more than happy to give me the play by play (with every adjective possible), but her words were muffled under the sounds of his moans.  I thought he must of hit the banister, as he was holding his side in the fetal position, but no one could actually hear my questions over my daughter’s story and his moans, so as loud as I could I bellowed, “What did you hit?”  All of a sudden, my daughter’s rendition stopped, as well as my son’s loud moaning, and all got quiet.  My son looked up at me and very seriously, with a look of utter disgust, said, “The ground!”  In a little under 2 seconds I realized what a silly question that was, but what a great answer!!!  I have just chuckled over this all morning and thought I would share it with all the mothers out there!

P.S.  He is absolutely fine, thankfully, and I do believe making his mother feel like a dimwit was the cure-all!!!! 

I'm one of those tools that's always chipper in the morning doing the ol' "daylight's a' burnin" thing and annoying the heck out of the partying folk who don't get started until noontime.