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.

Although it was still quite cold out, it was a very nice thing to see the roadways being clear AND dry while waiting for the bus this morning:

The rest of the day went well. The sun shone brilliantly all day. I did not wear a winter coat all day (I did wear a fleece sweater/jacket that I had on inside and out).

Phoebe’s ballet class got to try on their recital costumes today. They all looked amazing. While in costume they went to the other dance room to show the older girls (an advanced jazz class, I think they are all 16+ years old?) their whole dance and did it wonderfully!

Phoebe’s teacher is keeping the costumes to do an alteration to them before we get them back. This is a first as well, usually we are just given verbal instructions on how to complete or alter or whatever to the costumes. I cannot wait!

Today is the last day of February. It seems like such a blur that I don’t even know where it went.

Phoebe is still not feeling well. Her tummy is queasy enough that she’s carrying the bowl around with her and looking very pathetic. Poor girl. We did not go to my niece’s family birthday party for this very reason. Queasy tummy + LONG car ride = NO GOOD WILL COME OF THIS. Not to mention the real possibility of sharing spreading the bad germs to the little ones while there. Phoebe was very disappointed and was visibility trying to will herself better in order to go. Sorry, honey, it doesn’t work that way.

On a positive note, Phoebe was feeling MUCH better by the end of the day. Finally.

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!