Oh, Ye of Little Faith
There are moments when I experience a lack of faith in the school system in our little rural town in the middle of no where Kentucky. Today I had one of those moments. . .
At 12:30 this afternoon I got a call from a friend to tell me that school was going to be letting out early today. School was dismissing at 1:15pm. What??!! I knew there was a forecast for snow this afternoon, but really? Feeling a little annoyed, instead of putting John and Sarah down for a nap, I loaded them in the van to pick-up Elizabeth & Rachel from school. The little ones both fell asleep on the way home at what would have been about the time they should be waking up from their afternoon nap. Oh bother!
Sure enough by 3pm (the girls normally get out of school at 3:15) the ground was covered with snow, the roads were covered with snow and there were huge fluffy flakes falling from the sky. All I could think was . . . Oh, ye of little faith. Perhaps the school system does know something after all.
When I see big fluffy snow flakes I have this inner desire to go and "catch" them. I invited the kids to join me. Elizabeth was the only taker. We stood out there for a while letting the snow fall all over us trying to catch them on our hands and our tongues.
At 12:30 this afternoon I got a call from a friend to tell me that school was going to be letting out early today. School was dismissing at 1:15pm. What??!! I knew there was a forecast for snow this afternoon, but really? Feeling a little annoyed, instead of putting John and Sarah down for a nap, I loaded them in the van to pick-up Elizabeth & Rachel from school. The little ones both fell asleep on the way home at what would have been about the time they should be waking up from their afternoon nap. Oh bother!
Sure enough by 3pm (the girls normally get out of school at 3:15) the ground was covered with snow, the roads were covered with snow and there were huge fluffy flakes falling from the sky. All I could think was . . . Oh, ye of little faith. Perhaps the school system does know something after all.
When I see big fluffy snow flakes I have this inner desire to go and "catch" them. I invited the kids to join me. Elizabeth was the only taker. We stood out there for a while letting the snow fall all over us trying to catch them on our hands and our tongues.
Finally Elizabeth caught one on her hand. As she watched it melt I heard her say, "Look, thermal energy!" She was all excited to let me know that her snow flake was melting due to the thermal energy coming from her hand. Wow!
Perhaps I should have more faith in our rural school system in the middle of no where Kentucky!
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But the snow sure is pretty!