Snowy Domino Effect

Where’s the snow? The new snow? The foot of additional fluffy white stuff expected last night to join the already fallen 18 inches on the ground? No snow, but the dominoes have surely fallen…

1. “The snow is falling. The snow is falling,” Chicken Little forecasters predict.
2. Around noon yesterday the snow begins its chilly and persistent descent.
3. Exhibiting prudence, schools close for today – big kids as well as the little kids (meaning my dear darlings are home from college).
4. Weighing the daunting prospect of engineering my 90-year-old mother to the hospital for possible surgery at 9:00 a.m. this morning, I call the doctor yesterday afternoon. We postpone.
5. Which necessitated five more phone calls and two e-mails.
6. One of which was the caregiver for my parents. I had cancelled her for today. We wouldn’t be at home, so wouldn’t need her services.
7. Tried to get her back.
8. Schools are closed. Snow is coming. Her kids home. She can’t come.
9. Agency attempts replacements.
10. Schools are closed – snow is coming – no one can come.

So, it appears that everyone is home with their children today. Not a bad thing, I guess. This “hump day” is quite the “rest day” for many. Moral of the story: Some days you just go with the flow – or lack of snow flow.