This morning when Alex caught the bus, it really wasn’t foggy out. Then again, it was close to 6:30 a.m. too. However, by the time Phoebe caught her bus – around 8:15 a.m. – it was pretty darn foggy out. Fog in cold weather has this tendency to freeze to the trees (and most everything else) differently than just frost. It was pretty cool.

See? Neat, isn’t it? Phoebe thought it was pretty darn neat too.

Yesterday had started as my typical Thursday-school day-type day. Alex missed the bus; Phoebe did not.

After school was typical of late as well. Alex had after school theater rehearsal, followed by her musical theatre class. (I wish everyone would use the same spelling version as well!)

A quick dinner and Alex had vocal rehearsals for the community theatre. I dropped her off; Ray was to pick her up (don’t worry, that part was fine).

After dropping off Alex, I headed to the Mexican restaurant to meet up with some of my gal pals. A bit of dinner and some Rolls Royce Margaritas along with chatting and lots of laughter and everything was golden.

After my fabulous time with my friends I went home. One lady’s son has an ear infection, so she was anticipating a whiny, not-feeling-well child when she got home.

I did not expect to be home for about twenty minutes, for Phoebe to follow me into the kitchen, say that her tummy felt funny then proceed to vomit on the kitchen floor. Fortunately, there was something handy to catch it and minimize the amount of clean up.

That began the ALL.NIGHT.LONG.VOMITING that Phoebe went through. It was a very, VERY long night that I have since termed: PukeFest 2010. It probably won’t be the only one of the year, but it is the first one. No school for her today, at least it is Friday… Poor girl. I hope she doesn’t share this virus (one that is spreading like wildfire at her school). (I am not going to think that this is the price for having gone out for a few hours. Nope, I’m not.)

Sleep, sweetie, sleep. Feel better.

Phoebe has been dying to get out and climb trees. Snow play garb is not deterring her from wanting to. We, however, being the cold, horrible safety conscious parents we are, haven’t allowed her. The thought of climbing a tree with a scarf on is frightening to me.

No worries, she was only three feet off the ground (if that). I was sitting on the ground when I took the photo! It helped with her tree climbing obsession though since she did admit it was harder with all the “snow junk” on.

We got enough snow overnight and much more coming during the day that they called a SNOW DAY!!!

Ballet class was also canceled (kind of a bummer) so there was no place to go today!

Phoebe will tell you how she hates waiting and being patient. If you are lucky, you may not get that fact stated to you over and over and over in the octave of whine topped (bottomed?) with a stomping foot…or two. Waiting, is still, boring:

Phoebe did wait fairly well this particular time. You see, she was waiting for Ray – her WoW addicted father – to finish whatever computer work he was doing (or maybe he was playing Wow?) so that she could get logged in to play her WoW character. Yes, my husband is not only addicted to this game, he has created a 6.5 year old WoW addict! At least its something they can do together.

Ray used to play games like this with Alex when she was very young as well. Phoebe is at that great age where she can read and has all the coordination and focus and, yes, some patience in order for it to be an enjoyable thing for them to do together.

I, however, currently have zero interest in learning the password to log in. Thus, I cannot be coerced into allowing her to play for a short time (which it NEVER is with these games) while Ray is not here. *insert evil laugh* Perhaps you recall that South Park episode: Make Love, Not Warcraft? During which Kyle’s mother calls it a stupid game and such? Yeah, that would be me.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy they enjoy it. I’m thrilled its something that they do together (kind of together, since only one of them can play at a time…for now).

The one and only interesting thing that happened today was that Phoebe’s Daisy Girl Scout troop had a Valentine’s Day party.

Unfortunately, less that half the troop was able to make it in the end, it was still a lot of fun. The girls decorated picture frames. The leaders took each girls photo and then printed it out so there was a photo in the frame to take home. They also decorated heart-shaped sugar cookies, had pizza, fruit and veggies and of course, a really grand time!