Enough, Already!!

My birthday is four days before Christmas - hubby's birthday is four days from today. I'm used to the threat of snow around the time of my birthday, but never his!! Good grief! It's snowing now in KC, we're forecasted to get 3"-5" overnight. Unreal. KC hasn't had measurable snowfall in May for over 100 years. So glad we get to see that record broken (yes, that was extremely heavy sarcasm, in case  you didn't catch it!). It will be interesting to see how my spinach and peas handle this....but, I have leftover seed if I have to replant.

We went to bed last night with the bedroom window open, and I was still hot when the breeze wasn't blowing in. By midnight the window was closed - by 4 am I was asking hubby to please pull up more covers.  It's hard to know whether to put away the winter clothes for the season or not.

The one thing that was okay with today's weather was that I got my ironing done this afternoon. Yes, I'd held onto it through that 80-degree weather, knowing a chillier day was on the horizon. It's kind of fun to have the freedom to do that!

I read a story online this morning about the cost of prom these days. This reporter said it wasn't unusual for families to budget $1,000 for prom..........$1,000......for prom??!!! Simply unbelievable. Of course, this opinion comes from the girl whose school didn't even have prom. But if we had, I can assure you the budget at my house would have been minimal. According to this article, many schools are now selling tickets to those attending prom. At least one Texas school charged $55 per person. The mother interviewed there said it was a shock to her, because prom costs when she was in school had been underwritten by the junior class holding fund raisers.

When my kids were prom age, we didn't have a prom budget.......the kids were all working and took care of it themselves. I did the oldest one's hair both years and the youngest one's her junior year.....she paid for her own salon appointment her senior year. I know the youngest one's junior year dress was bought at a cut-rate cost in January, when the supply of dresses brought in for winter formals were on sale. It was hunter green, spaghetti straps, worked great for prom with silver jewelry and tiny silver and hunter green roses (from the WalMart craft section) in her hair. Son took care of his tux rental, date's corsage, etc. I do remember our having discussions at the time about the girls who were having their dresses custom made, some for as much as $300. We all had the same opinion of that.

I'll get off my soapbox now......need to check the outside and see if I can make a snowman yet!!!

TTFN