Crow Family Happenings

Friday, December 12, 2008

Snow Day?

I was awakened this morning at 5:30 AM by my cell phone. I didn't think much of it. I've grown used to waking up to my cell phone alarm. But I set it to 6:00 AM. So I grumbled, rolled over and turned it off. 15 seconds later my wife's cell phone went off. "She doesn't use her cell phone to wake herself up" I thought. She turned off her ringer and rolled over. It took me another 30 seconds to realize it was a real call.

The only one crazy enough to call both of us at 5:30 AM was a family member, with bad news! Reaching over I looked at my phone and saw I have a message. A few numbers later I hear this message "This is the superintendent of Robertson County Schools. Due to inclement weather, schools will be delayed for two hours." What? I get out of bed and run (OK, I stumbled) to the window. Looking out I see......nothing. No snow, no ice, not even fog. I see a couple of cars with frost. It is cold. It is in the 20's. But come on! School delayed on account ....cold?

This happened last year too. The school budgets a certain amount of snow weather days, and they never use it all. So when the chance comes, they take it.

I get to work and find there were some areas with snow... south of us. And most of the counties cancelled school altogether. Black ice was every where. There were even some cars with an inch of snow on top driving on the freeway. I must have been in a pocket of clear weather.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Young Women Service Project

Tonight the Young Women are offering free baby sitting at the church. The idea is that the parents can use the time to go Christmas shopping. Our meeting house sits two blocks from a very large shopping district. It includes a large mall, a Target, a Walmart, and miles of strip malls. So the two hours they are offering would not be taken up driving.

I recall an advirtisement last year for a church that did the same thing, except they offered it Sunday Morning. Parents could drop off their kids and go shopping while the kids went to church. It gave me all sorts of mixed up feelings. Is it good or bad?

I have fewer mixed feeling for this activity, mostly because it isn't on Sunday, but have we just bought in to the commercialism we should be staying above. Do we really need help from our church to be more material? When was the last time group baby sittng was arranged for a ward temple trip? Or a service project?

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Fast & Testimony Meeting

I posted this over at Amateur Mormon Historian today.

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