Punxatawney Phil Get His Way!

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Look what we woke up to yesterday! If my mental math is correct, yesterday was the 6 week anniversary of Groundhog Day. Now, as you all should remember :) the official groundhog of Groundhog Day is Phil. Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter. On February 2nd, I agreed with Phil. It was still very cold and gray and we still had about 18 inches of snow on the ground. However, February 3rd was a whole different story! It warmed up and the snow started to melt. It melted every day...until...yesterday. Oh were the kids excited! They were in there snow pants and gloves before I was even out of bed! Yep - Phil was ANGRY and he got his revenge!

No wrestling this weekend. Whew. We had a lovely. leisurely weekend! Dylan went to a birthday party, Lyndsi and I went shopping, Steve did homework, Lyndsi had a playdate and we all went to the O'Connors for dinner on Saturday night. Originally we had planned to head up to Sun Mountain but decided it had been too hectic lately so we are going to go over Spring Break - hopefully.

This should be a good week - only Cub Scouts to head off to on Wednesday evening but otherwise, no plans. The Cub Scouts are going to be learning about bike safety and will ride around the trail at the sports complex so I think Lyndsi and I will join them. A fun way to get a little exercize!

The leprechauns are due to visit tonight! I don't know what's happening to me. A few years ago the leprechauns started visiting our home on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. They tend to make a mess and leave a treat. One year, poor Ruth was stained with bits of green and our toilet water had a greenish tint! Tonight the little guys have already tossed all the Easter decorations and left Andes Mints on the dining room table. Fortunately, I've taken the green food coloring to school so our milk should stay white and our little white gerbil should maintain his color!

Yes, the leprechauns have visited our classroom also. This year they left a couple of chairs overturned and footprints with gold sprinkles on several desks and papers. They also left us all a recipe and the makings for leprechaun milkshakes. Yummy! I just hope I get to school at the same time as my students!

It was a year ago tonight that we hit a deer on the Conconully highway. He was a big guy and smashed the front end of the car pretty well! We were without the van for a month. The kids still remember that it was the night of the leprechaun visit. They were pretty traumatized! So was I. I can still see the poor buck standing in the middle of the road and everything that happened after that. Fortunately, the deer didn't see us and died within seconds of impact. Hopefully we never go through that again!

Thanks for reading and have a great week!