Weather...

Oh boy, weather is throwing a wrench into things, as it often does this time of year.

First complication of the day, Mr. D was home sick, so Miss F (preschool) was the sub in his room and Mrs. E took the preschoolers with her kindergartners.  We moved program practice time up to 1:00 since we haven't been getting through the whole program.  Plus it was super windy and the snow kept making drifts outside the E's house, so we drove kids over to church.

Today's practice finally flowed better.  Not too many tweaks were made.  Our songs sound MUCH better.  The bell song could use more practice, but with practice Thursday and Friday, we'll be ready for Sunday.

However, we might not get two practices in this week... Tomorrow is supposed to be super cold with extra powerful wind chills.  Gross.  If school is two hours late because of the cold temperatures, no worries, we'll still have afternoon practice.  But if it gets cancelled Thursday (or even cancelled on Friday... there's a chance of 3-5 inches), we'll only have one practice before the big performance Sunday, aka not enough preparation time.  Mr. E says if that's the case we'll cancel Sunday's program.  I'm sure many people won't be happy about that.  But we really need the practice.

Another potential complication... Tomorrow a guest speaker is supposed to come in the afternoon to talk about life in Russia.  He hasn't been very good about responding to emails, but I emailed him anyway to let him know the situation.  I don't have internet at home, so if school is cancelled tomorrow, I won't have a way to contact him.  Nevertheless, I have a plan in place! Mr. E is going to log on to my email and send a message to him (if school is cancelled).  If it's two hours late, we can proceed as planned.  I guess we'll see what happens!