Last Thursday morning, K and I were backing out of the driveway to go to school. K says to me 'mom, the car's slipping'. I slowed down and continued slithering into the road. There was slick black ice all over the driveway and the roads. According to the news, two women were killed in separate car accidents blamed on the icy conditions that morning. K said he saw lots of kids falling in the school parking lot, in particular this one guy who decided to jump from a snowbank and landed on his bum.
I parked my car on the side of the street when I returned home and decided to spread salt on the driveway. I slipped ingloriously at the bottom of the driveway, landing on my back and slightly bruising the palm of my hand. I was okay, but the irony of it all is that within 2 hours, the ice all melted away and life was back to normal. We were having a 2 day warming trend.
In other news, L is home for Reading Week. All the universities have the week off instead of the usual March break that the younger kids have. She has made a deposit (with 4 friends) on off-campus housing for 2nd year and they are all excited and ecstatic. They need parents to act as guarantors for the lease agreement.
