Walking Backwards

Joe and I are sitting here glued to the television/internet awaiting news of the latest road and work closures. Apparently the ice on the road is enough to shut the city down for the day. All of the schools in town are closed and most of the offices. Joe is home because the road to his office is barricaded off. His employer's are hoping for an office opening at around noon. We'll see. I'm making my judgment based upon the ice formations on my patio. As long as the ice next to my warm house is still thick and frozen, he is not going anywhere. It has only gone up a third of a degree since seven this morning, so I'm not expecting any drastic changes to the condition of the roads any time soon. Yay for snow days! I just wish it happened tomorrow so that I didn't have to be "helping parent" at my son's school.

As much as I am enjoying this stolen free-time, I really need to figure out something to do today or my toddler is going to be climbing up the walls and swinging from the chandeliers. He needs his running wildly time and being stuck inside all day is not going to do well for his constitution. We have already exhausted arts and crafts time since it was raining and cold yesterday, so I didn't want to set foot outside if I could avoid it. Now that we really can't go outside, I need to pull out the reserves. Last time we made giant blocks out of paper bags filled with newspaper and played Godzilla. The time before that we filled up the playpen with plastic balls and bounced around in that. I think today we'll probably end up making Christmas ornaments or fill the bathtub with colored shaving cream and go swimming.