It has been a really long time since we’ve had weather that deserved a snow day. But it’s not even Christmas yet and we’ve already had one and today is really snowy, icy and gross.
But luckily the roads are still passable (for now). We’re able to conduct our semester tests and we still have our Good Friday snow day free. But if the rest of this winter goes like the past month, we may not have it when Good Friday actually rolls around.
Last night I was holding my son Duncan. He’s coming up on 8 months and has been saying “ma ma ma ma ma” for quite a while. I was about to hand him to my wife when he kind of clung on and said “da da.”
My wife said that she had heard him say it a few times but that she didn’t tell me because she wanted me to hear it with my own ears.
It was exactly what I needed to hear after a long day!
I am planning on reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan over the Christmas break. He recently won a National Book Award for his history of the High Plains during the Dust Bowl. It is so strange to hear about the places that I really know and grew up in and around being talked about in a historical context on NPR…Dalhart, the XIT, Boise City, the Llano Estacado.
Look for my book report soon.