Nojotalks Opens up to You

Three kids at home today.  I am told it is because of SNOW!  I agree with President Obama...Children need to be in school on a school day.  This could be the fifth or sixth day of "No School" since mid-December.  I use the word "wimpy" to describe the school district's decision to not have school.

I am told that too many children need to walk distances to catch their buses; buses have trouble negotiating the snow; children are screaming on the buses.  I think that parents would take many children to their buses or even to school if school would have been held today.  I think that streets should be plowed on bus routes and bus drivers should be better drivers.  I think children screaming on the bus would not be an issue IF the other two suggestions were followed.

I need the children to be at school on school days.  There isn't much studying done at our house, and the kids here don't need to be at home on a school day.  Today's big event was the breaking of a 70 year old doll crib that just sits in the great room.  The five year older did it.

Additionally he wrote on a piece of wood furniture with pink or red chalk.   The fifteen year older was sent to clean off his grandfather's Cadillac.  I drove up and saw him shoveling the vehicle--snow shovel on the Cadillac.  Can you believe it?  That is why I am Baffled!

And it goes on and on...We can't find the remote control to my oldest sister's TV.  Things get lost in our world.  

I went outside with the five and nine year old children.  They had played alone yesterday.  They were "slurfing"--something they made up last year when eight and four.  What is it?  Standing up on the sled and going down the hill on the side of our house.  That is the same hill that my mother broke her wrist on years ago when she got out of the car and walked around the house as the caregiver came to ring the front doorbell.  Grandmother saw slurfing yesterday while viewing children from kitchen window.  She put a halt on the really fun (and disastrous) sport!  So, I spent an hour plus (until my feet got cold) building a snow fort--while shoveling the garage driveway apron.  I had already shoveled to get my little car out and to allow caregiver and cleaning lady to access house easily this morning.

Only thing tonight of consequence was fifteen year older's attempting to prepare frozen pizzas with cardboard still under pizza.  When questioned by his grandfather, he said that his mother does it that way.  Well, Mom is ABSENT...dropping in periodically since September, but gone for a week...with no one knowing anything.  Baffled