All right, it is Wednesday, February 25th. It is behind the table. I'm here with the lovely,

the talented, the brilliant, the emotional. Sarah Haynes. Thank you for reading it just like I wrote it.

I always do. I always do. It's in your contract.

So we've had kind of a wild week.

I can't believe it's only Wednesday because this snow, and I know people in the rest of the country that aren't dealing with us are probably like enough about the snow, get over it.

Yeah.

It's been a real kind of ordeal.

This has been the most snow accumulation in all my times in the suburbs.

Yeah. It's been a long time.

It's been, you know,

it's like over two feet. We woke up this morning. Streets had been cleared and then it was snowing again three or four inches. I don't think people, if you're not in it, don't realize

as a parent, this creates many, many difficult things, especially as a parent in a working family.

You've got three kids that not in school, help not always available.

You and Max both have big jobs, and suddenly you have to come to the city to stay in a hotel for the weekend.

What I can't get over is growing up in the middle of Iowa, like how quickly they call school off.

So when we were little, I don't know how you did it. You had to turn on the television and there was a ticker on the bottom that would tell you every school that was going to be delayed or closed. And we would wait in front of there. Then you'd run and call your best friend. Like, did you see it? We're off. And these kids, it's like 24 hours, sometimes more before. and it's like special announcement we won't be

holding school and that was like each day it keeps announcing and I'm like you guys it's just snow right

no and I think it's less about where you grew up and more about the generational difference it's

such a generational difference because when I was a kid it was the same thing we. We're watching desperately hoping for school. My mother's an elementary school teacher, so she was hoping definitely for school. My father was under his brother. I'm going to work either way. You guys should go to school and that kind of thing, which now I've become my father. And I'm sitting there like, all right, have fun at the snow day, building stuff in the backyard as I... These are the stories grandparents told us. I used to walk to school, barefoot in the snow.

Like, I'm definitely that person. But what they'll cancel school for, and it's not just our school, it's all schools. I'm like, they really don't endure a lot. Yet the view endures, no matter what, no matter whether... It is a little funny to be, someone walked by me on Monday and said, it's so funny. You think of emergency workers, law enforcement, in the view. When you think of essential workers, I go, is that what you thought? Because I was questioning what it means to be an essential worker. No, we're not exactly first responders here. But yet, we need to be at work. And so we were. but the kids must have missed you when you weren't home and everything else. Yeah, they did. But because I also am the

one that plays in the snow with them. Right. Because I have so many memories of growing up in snow.

So when I see snow, I see an eventual snow pile when it's plowed. I see sledding and I see snow forts and snowball fights. So they know if they're home with Papa, he's not going out in that snow. But the second I get home, they're like, mama, when are you coming out? And like, so it ends up being all the fun stuff. I was home. I was away for a couple days and I came home and found that. And I get jealous that Heather's get to be home with the girls, of course, but this may be crazy because I think we've talked before. I'm a little more conservative about what movies and shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've talked about them. And Heather's now gone completely. She'll show them, she'll show Grace our oldest anything. Wait, so what were they watching? Well, I'm so torn because they're, they're, they came home and I found that she watched two movies that I absolutely love and hated to have missed out on watching with, with Grace, but at the same time I would have felt incredibly awkward watching with Grace. What ones? Easy A. Oh, yep. Emma Stone. And then Crazy Stupid Love. No. Which is one of my all-time favorites, and I missed out on seeing that. But also. But that's Ryan Gosling, right? Ryan Gosling. So that movie, I had always loved Ryan Gosling for years and years and years. Crazy Stupid Love comes on, and my mom looks at the screen, and she goes, that boy looks a little bit like your brother And I looked at it. Ruined forever. Well, I looked at him first and I was like, you know, I see where you're going. Two minutes past. That cute boy looks like your brother. Well, like similar height, you know. By the third time, I thought I will never see anyone but my brother. I no longer look at Ryan Gosselin

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