Snow, friends and teeth ...

I realise that for some of you this is no big deal. But it snowed this morning !!!

Not at our place unfortunately, we live too close to the beach for that. But a five minute drive into the centre of town and it was snowing on the car as I drove along. A further five minutes out the other side and up into the hill suburbs and I had to stop the car because the roads were covered. I'm pretty sure that the woman standing in her window looking out thought I was insane ... I got out of the car and spun in circles looking up to feel the snow on my face ...

School was a shambles. Three of the teachers couldn't make it in because they were snowed in, and two of them were sent home early in case they couldn't make it later in the day. The kids were put into joined classrooms, and as near as I can tell, not a lot of work went on. In the chaos S lost her tooth. Not just "fell out and here it is" lost, but "lost, gone, no idea where it is" lost. We have to write a letter to the Tooth Fairy and explain what happened apparently.

S had a friend over after school. She's a cute little thing whose mum dropped her off and stayed for coffee and cake. Turns out her birthday is exactly the same day as S's, which S thinks is just the best thing to happen ever and means, by some astrological rule, that they are best friends forever. Her mum's pretty awesome too, so I think I'm on my way to making friends here.