Not Me Monday

I can't believe it's time again for Not Me! Monday, when you can be completely honest, with no sarcasm, about what you did not do this past week. For example:

I for sure did not let out a "hurray" when I heard that AWANAs was cancelled this past Wednesday. Knowing that the temps were supposed to dip to -35 with the windchill even colder, it would have been great fun to come home at 9:00 p.m. while my body turned into a human ice cube!

Later Wednesday night, I did not become overjoyed when I heard that school would be cancelled the next day. (Is this truly turning out to be a MN winter?? Extremely cold and TONS of snow.) And since I knew there would be no school on Thursday, I absolutely, for sure, without a doubt did not stay up late and watch the temperature drop to -25, all the while trying to predict how long it would take to drop another degree. That would have been a waste of time, so of course I didn't do that!

Since there was no school on Thursday, because of a wind chill advisory (no travel advised), I definitely, most certainly would not have been out in that weather, travelling for 1 1/2 hours to Blackduck where I could go FABRIC SHOPPING! Nope, when school's cancelled, I stay in the house because no one should be out having fun when there could have been school! And I for sure did not come home with 10 huge grab bags of fabric to go through!

There is no school today and I have not wasted the morning with reading a book, listening to CDs, giving recorded testimony to insurance for car accident claim, filing vehicle crash reports online (from last week's car accident), and catching up on everyone's Not Me! Monday posts that I'm still in my pajamas at 12:47 PM!

Thankful Thursday

Based on my Wordless Wednesday post yesterday, here are a few things I'm thankful for.

1. long underwear
2. hot cocoa
3. heated house
4. no AWANAs Wednesday night...home early!
5. great books to read when it's freezing outside
6. cancelled school today so I can go fabric shopping :)

It reached -29 degrees below zero last night. Add that temperature with winds and you have -50 degree windchills, the reason school was cancelled today. So I did the only wise thing there was to do...I went on a road trip to go fabric shopping! Great fun!

Not Me Monday...

Well, it's Monday again, and here are some things I did not do this last week.

Since it's only December, I did not request time off for April, when I won't be going to The Phantom of the Opera with my sister in Kansas City. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, so I definitely would not plan ahead and have anything scheduled for 4 months from now!

After the way my students practiced for the school Christmas program, I did not consider not showing up Thursday night. (By the way, they surprised me and did a great job at the program. Now why can't practices go that way?)
With the program done, on Friday I did not let my class goof off and make glitter Christmas ornaments and construct a gingerbread house all afternoon, especially with the amount of work they should have done before Christmas vacation.

Friday after school, I did not leave at 3:13 p.m. to go to Wal-Mart to fight the crowds. Everyone was stocking up to prepare for the big storm coming. I had to get pictures from the one hour photo center so I would have something to work on for craft night. When my friend arrived, she did not come in the house and tell me she'd locked her keys in her car, before she got any of her stuff out. To preserve the precious craft time, I did not pile 3 of us in my dad's truck to drive 15 minutes to get her keys and come back (Craft night was fun, by the way).

Seeing the storm that was ragin on Sunday, I did not hope we'd have school because I wanted to do fun projects with my kids at school. Why would a teacher do that? Don't I know the unspoken rule for teachers in Minnesota--we LIVE for snow days! After watching the news and discovering that school was cancelled for today, I did not stay up until 2 a.m. working on Christmas presents, and I most definitely did not sleep until 10 a.m. today!

Seeing the beautiful snow outside this a.m., I did not trudge through snow drifts over my knees to take pictures.

Since I don't have school today, I'm not being lazy and I definitely am not waiting until it's almost noon to take a shower! (Don't you love SNOW DAYS!)

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow...

Oh the weather outside is frightful,

but the fire is so delightful

and as long as we've no place to go

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

It's a great day to stay inside and cuddle up with a good book (which I did earlier) and hot chocolate. Yesterday the pine trees were covered in frosty snow. I managed to hike through the snow and snap a few pictures. As the chickadees were chirping at the feeder, I was thinking about how God takes care of the birds, even by giving them the instinct to prepare for a coming storm. How comforting to know that God cares even more about us.

Today, the storm is in full force. Looking outside, all I see is blowing snow, with an occasional strong gust off the roof. Visibility is very limited, and not many people are out on the roads, although the snowmobilers are having fun! I'm glad I'm inside where it's warm and there's plenty of hot cocoa and books...speaking of books, I have 5 chapters left so I know what I'm going to do this afternoon. Now for the hot cocoa...