What! No Internet?!

One of the first things I do when I wake up is check online to make sure the school hasn’t been canceled for the day. You laugh, but I have learned my lesson.  Never wake up your child and assume that they will have school that day.  Here in Iowa they can close the school due to it being too cold outside.  You all from FL, GA, & LA are laughing, huh?  It’s true.  They can….and they have.  So this morning there was a possibility of school being closed due to an ice storm coming our way and the most annoying thing happened… I couldn’t log on to the internet. This is a very frustrating thing for me because I am not a very patient person and I take most things like being able to connect to the World Wide Web for granted. So not having the world at my fingertips was was very frustrating.  I realized then that I had to go about this the “old school” way. So I sat there watching the bottom of the TV for a good 5 minutes.  That’s how long it took them to go thru alllllllllll the schools that were listed as being “closed”.  They whole time I was wishing for it to hurry up and for nothing to happen that would pull me away from the TV because if I were to miss Meagan’s school in the line up…I’d be sitting there anther 5 minutes. Thankfully nothing needed my immediate attention so I was able to see  that indeed Dubuque School District was closed for the day. I looked at the clock and thought “okay… I have about 20 minutes before the girls wake up to call tech support and fix the internet problem.”  As many mothers know…it’s BEST to do things like this when the kids are sound asleep because the last thing you’d want is to be taking care of the kids while tackling your computer problems. Then it hit me.  Back in the day when I worked behind a desk.  I would call Tech Support and have to tackle work related problems all the TIME.  The only difference was there were NO KIDS at work.  To think a SAHM (Stay at  home mom)  has to tackle the computer AND watch kids at the same time minus the paycheck…… So sitting there enjoying my connection to the internet, thankful that Daisy is under the desk warming my feet and drinking my morning coffee I thought to myself…hmmm, maybe I’m more patient than I give yourself credit for…..next thing to tackle….a shower.

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