The Weather

Thunder?

It's 9:37 and I keep hearing a deep rumbling sound outside. It sounds suspiciously like thunder. I've never heard of a thunderstorm in February. Weird.

Editted to add: We did have a thunderstorm. With lightning. In the middle of February. Wow.

Ice?

It's supposed to drop down below 0 degrees tomorrow and all today's rain is supposed to freeze. All the slush is gone already, so it's just water. If we don't get more slushy rainy stuff, it will just be cold. Honestly, I think we've all panicked for nothing. The schools were closed today. I expect them to be closed tomorrow, too. They didn't need to do that today. The only thing I can think of is that maybe in the outlying areas of our new amalgamated city, the conditions were a lot worse. They always close the whole district.

If the school is closed, I'm not sure what to do with my children. DD wants to learn how to cook. I've told her she can help me make cookies, but she's not really interested in the details. I think she wants to cut things with knives and stir hot pots. The forbidden stuff.

Anyway, I was thinking of trying a scavenger or treasure hunt, just to keep them busy. But then I would have to come up with something right now, instead of going to bed early, like I've planned.

Non-Weather Related Product Endorsement

I bought some Buckley's Jack and Jill medicine strips for DD's cough. She takes them! She actually enjoys taking them! No fussing and whining! They're like the Listerine strips, only with cough medicine: you put them on your tongue and they dissolve. The downside is that you pay one dollar more and you get 2 fewer doses. But she'll actually take them, and they seem to work, so yay!