school till july

That will be us. Just got another call from the public schools that they aren't going to open at all tomorrow. The weather is fine, but I guess their snow removal system has been pushed to its limits, and they can't make the roads safe for the buses in time. One of the smaller main roads, the one we take to the Y, is a solid sheet of 3 inch thick ice, for about a two or three mile stretch. Brian's school announced their decision to remain closed earlier in the day, but they have moved a random holiday from March 8 to tomorrow, so they're not taking another day off their already-reduced calendar. I hope the kids remember anything by the time they get back on Tuesday! Actually Wednesday! The public schools had a four day weekend scheduled already.

So you can tell by my frequent updates that I have grown bored of the luxury. I went out today and cleared most of the driveway and there was a nice path for the mailman to get at the box, and the plow came through and dumped TONS of huge ice chunks along the side of the road. I can't even get the shovel through them, let alone lift and clear a six-foot path for the mail truck. I hope The Job didn't reject me by mail, because I won't know for weeks at this rate.

Speaking of The Job, I won't hear anything now for days, because their school is closed through Tuesday too. So although I sent an email to rattle the cage a little, it may well be that nobody will be reading it for nearly a week. This is harrowing.

But the good news of the day was Megan's SAT scores, which are good enough to get her into almost any school she is looking at, with a few exceptions. If she plans to go on a swim scholarship, they are more than acceptable. They might not get her any academic money from a superior institution, but if a superior institution had a swim coach that was interested, she wouldn't have any trouble getting in with these scores. And if she chooses the local D3 school that doesn't offer swim scholarships, it is possible that the scores ARE good enough to merit a little bit of free money. But we'll see. I'm very relieved because that means that even if she doesn't improve in May, she has good scores already so the pressure is off.

But since she is already signed up to take them, I'm going to send her to two hours of review with a woman a friend recommended, and I ordered the question and answer documentation that shows which questions she got wrong, the difficulty level of each, and what the correct answers were. And of course, she knew that she got the one math question wrong. Plus, she is still signed up for the ACT in June. If she does well enough in May, maybe we won't even make her sit for that one. I have heard that the ACT has a science portion as well. Who can remember all of this stuff?

And in other news, Kevin made it in to work on the bus today. He went to pick Megan up from practice, after I dropped her off half an hour late. She agreed to babysit for the boys next door until 4:30, but didn't tell the mother that she HAD to leave no later than 4:30. So the woman came home at 5, thinking that was the time at which she had said she would be home. Megan was freaking out, and we still had to drive on the ice rink all the way to the Y. But we got there just half an hour late, and with her cough and sinus thing, losing that time in the pool might not be so bad for her.