Snow Day?

I would not be ungrateful.

It's been a rough week for this teacher. I even had a pencil box thrown at my head, among other unpleasant and somewhat violent acts. The good news is that the kids are doin' some learnin'...measureable increases in their reading skills in the past month, despite all their efforts to thwart my teaching.

Beautiful, gentle, steady snow is falling on the city. We spent the evening at Matt and Sloan's with half the crew downstairs playing Wii and Rita and myself knitting away upstairs. Coming home rather late, we drove on streets that were empty and covered with powdery snow. The sky was a soothing pale orange color, and the snow muffled all the regular city noises. It's hard to hate winter when it's so pretty.