MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

2 Different Things

The first is that today I went outside for a walk and I had to take off my polar fleece/light wiinter coat because I got too hot! It's almost 50 degrees outside and sunny, and I was even warm wearing the turtleneck sweater I had on. I know this doesn't sound like much to those of you who live with good weather for most of the year, but here in the Northland we squeeze so much joy out of these first days of Frolicking Spring! We soak up the sun, savor the gentle rushing music of water pouring down the streets to the drains. We still have tons of snow but more of it is melting to gigantic puddles. It could be a blizzard tomorrow or freeze overnight (that's March for you), but we'll take days like today and just love the heck out of 'em. I'm surprised I didn't see anyone sporting shorts today.

The other thing is that my older teens are staying home from high school today, and they probably should have stayed home yesterday as well. This is because absolutely NO LEARNING is going on because the South High girls' basketball team has gone to the state tournaments, and so yesterday and today (because they won yesterday's game) students are allowed to be absent and go watch the tournaments during the day. My kids said that no one was there yesterday, a handful of kids, so they either got to watch movies or go to the library. What's the point of being in school then? They are getting caught up with homework at home, and my son is even so bored he has a) emptied and filled the dishwasher on his own, b) run a load of his own laundry, and c) I caught him actually hanging up and putting away the clean laundry he has had sitting in a basket in his room for awhile!

I just have to say it though-- how come a basketball game is so important that all the kids in a school miss two whole days of learning? It is people running after a ball, for chrissakes! (Can you tell I'm not into sports?) I just think that the priorities are a bit screwed up. I'm just sayin'.

I'll quit complaining now.