Another Snow day......sigh......

Here's a pic I shot from inside my house, you can see our new deck. I love a snow day like any other person, but we've had quite a few in my district and we'll be going to school till July at this point! Austin & Timmy's school district took away 2 days of their Spring break to make up 2 snow days (when I taught in the Poconos it was ALWAYS like that-in fact I worked there 10 years and never had a Spring break...ever) personally I am in favor of the idea...mostly because our school has NO AC! The upstairs temps actually reach to 105 degrees in May-June-at least I work downstairs. My district doesn't take spring break days away because...get this...Parents would lose money on their vacations! That's the rumor anyway! One more thing-I work in an urban district-who goes on vacation anyway?

There is one wonderful benefit to these snowy days-I am getting my National Board submissions finalized! I actually would have lost a lot of weekend time if not for these days-Austin & Timmy play in the snow, while Mommy loses her mind typing, editing, revising, and more, so I can submit this March 31! Here's another secret...I'm actually done! I just have to get my videos completed and burned onto cd's, all the writing analysis & reflections are complete! I plan to mail my portfolio box mid-March and my exam is in May. The results are not released till late November-December-so keep a good thought and a prayer for this. If I pass I will be 1 of 2 in the Lehigh Valley and 1 of 44 in the whole state of PA, with this honor for Literacy-the other person who has it(locally) is a school district Director of literacy, so it's quite a huge deal.