Everyone who has been reading my blog since I started it in the beginning of 2008 knows my disdain for the 2-hour delay so frequently used at my daughter’s school. Well, it’s that time of year again – Tuesday was our first 2-hour delay of the school year. It’s not like I want the buses to go out on the slippery country roads and endanger kids and drivers; it’s just that the delay throws off the entire family for the whole day! If there was some way to effectively implement the delay for those who would have trouble getting to the school in poor weather conditions, I think that would be a good solution. However, it’s obvious that would lead to kids falling behind other kids and such, so it’s obvious why they don’t do that. But 2-hour delays frustrate me nonetheless.
My 2-year-old gets frightened or crabby if we do things differently from our normal routine. So when there’s a 2-hour-delay, she sleeps in until after 10 and wakes up disoriented, hungry and crabby. I guess I could wake her, but I figure if she’s sleeping in then she needs the sleep – and it will pay off for me later in the day because her daily pre-naptime intensity won’t be quite as demanding as usual. So Tuesday’s delay was caused by snow, which meant that my 4-year-old wanted to play in it all day (no preschool today). But of course she wants someone to play with, and I’m not comfortable letting my 2 and 4-year-olds play outside by themselves of course. And on Tuesday it was too cold to take the baby out with us… So we were all stuck inside and my middle two have a rivalry going on, which means that they fight over everything and constantly; Tuesday being no exception because why would it be? Hopefully the salt shortage there is for the roads this winter won’t lead to more school delays – our first one did not go smoothly!
Well since I was on the roads early in the day, I think the delay had more to do with the bit of ice under the snow. The back roads were nasty first thing in the morning. 34 into Bryan wasn’t much better.
Mom does a bus route. The morning “wasn’t the greatest.” Last Monday I believe we had some weather move in AFTER the buses were already out and when they got back in it was worse than yesterday. But I feel your pain when it comes to schedules. Mom prays that there are not delays Thursdays and Fridays since she works in the beauty shop those days and has to totally rearrange her schedule whenever that happens.