Those of us in the greater Seattle area are just coming off of the craziest winter weather we have had in several decades. In fact, I heard we have not had an equivalent amount of snow since 1916! Regardless of working parent, working from home parent or stay at home parent; we all had one thing in common during the craziness of “snowmageddon”, our kids were home and there wasn’t a darn thing we could do about it.
For myself and the other moms in my life, we honestly are already looking back not quite knowing how we survived it. Halfway through day two of no school, my kids officially became unglued. For some of us, it was literally almost three weeks of no school since our mid-winter break came right at the end of the snow days.
I am not here to share my new wealth of information when it comes to entertaining your kids during no school days. Instead, I am here to share with you ten things that might have happened to you too during these weeks of being on house arrest with your kids. I am sure you can relate to at least a few.
You might have been part of snowmageddon if:
1. You were pretty sure your elementary aged kids were playing outside in the cul-de-sac. Or had they come inside and were hiding quietly as a joke to scare you? Either way, you were probably on a work call so you couldn’t be bothered with the details of their exact whereabouts.
2. You did your best to prep your kids that “mommy is going to be on a conference call so please watch your ipad in silence”. Except when it came time for you to unmute yourself and present to the team, it was the exact same moment your three year old decide she had to have a snack. Or else she might collapse right that very minute. Imagine the “mom, mom, mom” progressively getting louder and louder as this poor working mom attempted to keep verbal composure while giving silent death threats in efforts to get her child to be quiet.
3. You played so many rounds of Guess Who that you know the exact line up of characters on the board. All 24 of them.
4. The website you visited most frequently was the “school closure” site hoping desperately to see those two magical words, normal hours.
5. By day three of no school, you were basically numb to the words no school showing up as the verdict for the following day. At one point I honestly thought I might be living out the movie Groundhog Day.
6. You decided the snow was going to be fun and that the family would all go sledding on a nearby hill. Fast forward ten minutes into this joyous day and everyone is crying.
7. During the joyous turned miserable ten minutes of family fun, your toddler is whining about his feet being cold. You basically tell him to deal with it only to later take off his boots and realize his poor little feet are beet red. He is fine but enter mom guilt.
8. Hot cocoa and Nintendo at 7am? Sure! Anything to survive and stay off the evening news.
9. To promote the kids staying outside, you agreed to bury them in the snow. But then realized you were unsure if breathing was an issue or if the snow on top of them made it too heavy for them to move. A small part of you wondered if you had actually buried your children alive and would end up on the evening news. Quick calorie burn for the speed in which you unburied them just to be safe.
10. When the day finally came for you to venture out in the world, you realize you hadn’t put on real pants in over a week. Real pants are not as fun as yoga pants. Especially after a week of polishing off the Halloween candy your kids still had stashed.
Can you relate to these? Do you have any funny, cringe-worthy stores? We’d love to hear!
Read more of Stephanie’s contributions to allmomdoes here.
