Ever wonder what teachers do when there isn’t any school?
Fire & Ice
I am my father’s daughter. I know how to make a raging fire. I have spent years watching him build fires, in The Most Beautiful Fireplace in the World, and strategically place wood in locations ready to add to the smoldering logs.
When it snows, I typically yearn to be at my parent’s house gearing up to go sledding or hunkering down to play games. This is the first snow that we’ve had at HBHQ and I’m feeling quite cozy and down-home happy.
We were left with a fairly large woodpile when we moved in and it is finally
coming handy. I found myself bundled in a random combination of pjs and one of Barry’s extra large ski coats this morning strategically piling wood outside our door in order to ensure fewer trips to the woodpile.
I have countless childhood memories of making such trips in and out the door to fill the wood box with my family…. loading one another up and hoping that each load would be the last.
If The Most Beautiful Fireplace in the World was 
getting used, my dad would take on the wood-getting and fire-building himself to make the a-fore-mentioned raging fire. The stones stay hot for days and it is best to lean up against them if you’ve just come in from the freezing weather.
Now, we don’t have stones that heat up and we certainly don’t have The Most Beautiful Fireplace in the World, but I am my father’s daughter and I have made a raging fire.
Excuse me, while I go enjoy it.
Let it Snow….Later!
Here’s the thing: I need it not to snow anymore. Don’t get me wrong, any other year I’d be praying for snow. I would. I love the snow.
It’s just that this year I’m video taping my classroom and I simply need THE PERFECT lesson before December 19th. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ve been taping, taping and taping some more and need a few more mornings.
This whole snow thing is the squeaky wheel. It’s a thorn in my side. It’s…it’s, horrible. I need for school to be in session. Please let me do my job….oh, please. Then we can go enjoy the snow. I’ll make a few snow angels and build a wonderful snow fort. Just let me press record a few more times this week.
