Mrs. Holes-Eater

Two snow days in a row on the backside of Christmas break! What a way to start the new year! There are HUMONGOUS piles of snow all around school. So many gigantic piles you can hardly see the bus from inside school! 

It was a megablessing to start school on Thursday this week. G and I returned from our North Shore honeymoon Saturday night to G's house in Mankato, packed up his things Sunday, and moved him into my Nicollet house Monday. Our unpacking/settling in plans were waylaid by water... I opened the door to find a huge puddle of water in the basement yet again, this time from a broken valve in my new fridge (the one connecting the water to the icemaker). Thankfully it was easy to shut off. Thankfully it didn't damage anything. Thankfully it was "easy" to clean up. Could've been a lot worse. So, the house is still not fully settled-in, but we're working on it. And now we know, SHUT OFF THE WATER anytime we're gone longer than a day or two. 

It was good to be back in school today. My kids weren't too crazy. Most of them kept calling me Miss H. I wrote my new name on the board, complete with pronunciation. The easiest way to say it is "holes-eater" with the "s" as more of a "z" sound. A lot of people gave up and called me Mrs. H. It's an adjustment!

Both of our Christmas services were cancelled due to weather and a TON of people called Mr. E and Pastor asking to reschedule. So, after much deliberation, we are doing it next Wednesday morning, January 11th starting at 8:45am in case any of y'all want to come. 😉 It will be livestreamed and recorded for those who want to watch, but can't make it at that time. 

Lots of people wanted us to do it in the evening, but it's so hard for young families to keep their kids up so late on a school night. Plus there are three meetings scheduled for that evening and all the other nights that week have basketball things scheduled. We don't want to go any deeper into January. It's already taken up so much class time to prep... So we're making the decision to do it this way. If it means so much to people, they can watch online at their convenience or take time off to come see it. 

We have a staff meeting today after school, along with our rescheduled staff Christmas party. I wonder if anyone will guess that SPS means salt and pepper shakers?