The Scheme of Life

I like watching the ticker tape at the bottom of the tv screen on potential snow days. Over the past 50 years the increasing amount of time it takes to go through the alphabetical list is impressive yet also irritating. If you see Helping Hands Preschool you have about 11 minutes before the D’s come back around. Eleven minutes of anticipation and then relief or resignation-

A. “DORSET HAS NO SCHOOL TODAY! Maybe I’ll clean the house.”

B. “Ah f*ck.”

On days when I prefer to stay in bed until the last minute I go to the school closings list on the VPR app on my iPad.

It’s fast and most often reliable. Today even though it’s coming down pretty steadily outside, only BBA is closed and one other is on a delayed opening. Delayed openings at preschools mean I get the kids soon after they arrive rather than a couple of hours later for some high energy creative movement. The teachers are often very thankful.

I know I’ll have my work cut out for me. No school yesterday, late start today means ten seconds of mixed emotions-

A. “Oh well, at least I’ll get paid for some crazy Hullabaloo today.”

and

B. “Ah f*ck.”

Wait! What’s this? (New email message received.)

“Hi Alexandra, we have a delayed opening this morning but due to our Valentines Day party we won’t be having Hullabaloo.”

Three seconds of confusion and outrage-

A. “Is the VPR list incorrect? Did they just this second decide to delay?”

then

B. “The nerve!”

Since when did a Valentines Day party trump rollicking sessions of Hullabaloo?

Mom’s response; “Sooner or later we find out where we fit in the scheme of life”.