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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Yesterday, Chicago awoke to 19 degree temperatures and snow flurries! Here was what the weatherman wrote in today's Chicago Tribune:

high: 30
low: 13
January-level chill; the coldest November 17 in 46 years! Sunny, readings well below normal. The coldest high here since March 8. Winds ease but afternoon windchills only return to the teens. Increasing cloudiness Thursday night. A bit of light snow or some flurries arrive after midnight. Steady/slowly rising readings late.

Reality is setting in. They are there, in the cold and the wind, and I am here, where I am starting to feel the difference between 61 and 65. I feel terrible that the houses aren't selling and they are having to endure what we thought we would miss: another Chicago winter.

Sarah is in a talent show this Friday. As it turns out, she is the only one in her 3rd grade class who was selected and she will perform for the whole school along with kids from other classes. This is a big moment for Sarah! She will be playing 10 Chocolate Cookies on the piano and no doubt, she will do a great job and look super cute. It's the first such performance that I will miss.

Sarah was also selected to read aloud in the school holiday performance, something she's been wanting to do since she first started participating in them back in Kindergarten. This too, I will miss.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy about everything in our lives and think that the current arrangement is the best for all, under the circumstances. But the circumstances are starting to bug me.