Just another day...

Nothing too exciting to write about today.  I woke up this morning to the horrible screeching alert of the local news channel telllig my phone to tell me that the Henderson County School System deems the .00002 inches of snow on the ground impassible and I should keep my children home to spare them from certain doom.  I thanked all parties involved for the 5:20 am warning and rolled over to attempt a few more minutes of much needed sleep.  David of course choses this to be the morning that he will wake up of his own accord, clean his room and be dressed for school by 6:15.  If you read yesterday's blog you will be amused by the fact that Savannah got up at 6:30 and made a lap through the house without loud shouts or death defying floor dives.  She did go back to bed within 2 minutes but hey its a start.  I got off to work with a thermos of coffee in one hand and Brad's egg sandwich creation in the other. 

Up until 11:00 the day was going pretty smoothly and then I got a call from home from Brad. 
Ring, Ring...
"Hello."
"You have got to come home immediately."
PAUSE...
Now when your husband calls his wife at work and says "you have got to come home immediately" a mother goes through the following possibilities in her mind.  She quickly breezes through the line up of family disasters ...the house is on fire. No, one of the children was playing sword fight with the butcher knife and sliced open a finger.  No, the garage door safety mechanism broke and one of the children got caught under the door. If you are a mother, you do not need me to continue.  You know exactly what I am talking about.
RESUME...
Slightly gasping, "What is wrong?"
"I went out to start the car.  The stupid door locked on its own and you know that it is not supposed to do that and when we all went out to get in it we were already locked out of the house."
"I will be there as soon as I can let the boss know that I am leaving.  You should go down the street to Ms. Oates house."
"No we will be fine.  We are all bundled up." 
"OK."

Now ordinarily this would not be a big deal but it was 21 degrees outside today.  I hurried.

I went back to work and finished out my day.  When I got home, I decided that since it had warmed to a balmy 30 degrees that I would go out to ride my bike.  So I put on 2 shirts, my long, candy striped thermal underwear, pants, two pairs of gloves, a pink scarf, a coat, and Brad's camo ear muffs.   I must say that I looked rather fetching as I mounted my Schwinn Cruiser.  I had a crisp tour of the neighborhood.  When I got home I could not feel my nose, chin or the fingers on my right hand, but I was able to get in that 30 minutes of excercise for the day. 

I cooked a delicious pot of chicken and rice soup.  (It was not a new recipe.)  Then it was on to the task of attempting to remotely teach my mother in law how to log on to video chat.  After multiple failed attempts and some mysterious green blobs in the video window we all had a good laugh and gave up on that venture. 

So like I stated in the beginning nothing really amazing happened today.  Maybe that is a good thing.  Until tomorrow...