But didn’t school JUST start? And wasn’t the kids’ first weekend a THREE day weekend? Yes and yes. But to be fair (pun intended), this 4-day weekend was not planned in advance, well not entirely, anyway. It began with Monday being Fair Day for the kids – our county fair opens tomorrow, and the kids are off school on Monday to go to the fair and also because many of them have 4-H projects that will be judged at the fair on Monday – that was a planned day off. So then today, my husband was driving our daughter to school, when he realized he was the only one on the road and at the school. At least, that’s what he thought -it was so foggy they couldn’t see much of anything… so they returned home only to find that there was a two-hour delay because of the fog – our phones had been turned off so we didn’t get the early morning call… So anyway, the 2 hour delay turned into an entire fog day because the dense fog would not clear early enough for the school district to send the buses into the country to pick up the kids. Fog Day on Friday + Fair Day on Monday = the first 4-Day weekend of the new school year, taking place on only the third weekend of the new school year! Luckily our student calender is set up to include 5 calamity days, and in NW Ohio, early morning fog is considered a calamity, I guess! What will we do when the 5 yearly calamity days are taken out of the calendar since the governor’s plan calls for calamity days to be phased out? Wait and see, I guess…
And now I have to totally rearrange my day – so much for advance planning! I’ll have to juggle the not-4-kid-friendly errands I have with my husband’s planned business call – keeping 4 kids quiet and out of the way for that? Good luck to me! These are the times when I wish he had his own office… The benefits of working at home outweigh the negatives of him working at an office of course, but on days like these, ugh! It’s funny because I’m not native to NW Ohio and so both fog days and fair days are new to me – man, would I have loved these as a kid. As an adult… not so fun. Maybe we can have another calamity day later this year when we have nothing planned and we can just sit inside and watch movies and play games all day… Then, let it snow!
“The benefits of working at home outweigh the negatives of him working at an office.” Sounds oddly close to a wise axiom of an ancient alien race: “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Surely very wise and you say that you are not a Trekker. But that is hilarious just another difference between where you grew up and where you chose to raise your wonderful kids.
So, um… why can’t the kids go to the fair on the weekend? ❓
Just an example of regional culture, I guess. They do the judging on the kids’ 4-H projects on Fair Day, guess there’s too much other stuff going on the weekends. Most other county fairs are in the summer, but ours is one of the later ones, so it interferes with school. Don’t know why, but I enjoy the cultural differences for the most part.