11o Coat-Wearing-Weather and Anonymous Comments

All of the yahoos wore coats today.
Real coats.
Not hoodies or sweaters or wanna-be coats.
Nope, real-intended-for-freezing-weather-coats.

This comes on the heels of a very very BBRRRR-freakin'-cold yesterday,
where the idea of wearing a real coat was offensive to my
Colorado-born children,
who scoffed at the very idea of needing proper clothing
for actual "warmth"...
and after the Caboose froze her bahooey off waiting for me
on a corner after school yesterday,
where it was so COLD that the school sent an official email out
saying that Kiss N' Go students would remain INSIDE the building
until their parent arrived at the door.
No Kidding.
It was 11o before the windchill--and there were windgusts of 25mph.
But the Caboose thought I wouldn't get the message.
So
SO
She took her little carpool buddy and waited outside on our regular corner.

Now, thinking that there was nothing but a full parking lot of parents in line to pick up kids,
I thought to myself:
"Self, wait a bit before heading over there, because you'll just sit in line."
So I did.
And when I got there,
the parking lot was near-empty.
I waited.
N' Waited.
N' WAITED.
About 5 minutes or more.

Then*ding* the thought came to my noggin
that perhaps the little darlings had ignored the school's warnings
and were at our designated pick-up place,
so I pulled outta the parking lot and looked down the street.

Yup. There they were.
Them and a freezing-cold crossing guard.

I yelled out to the adult, "I'm sorry, I got the email and have been waiting over at the school."
To which, her trembly, blue lips replied: "These girls insisted that they had to be here. [grumble, grumble]--They need to wear COATS to school!"

When the Caboose and her frozen buddy (also not wearing a coat) climbed into the warm car,
chattering about how cold it was,
I said, "Wow. It's too bad your mommas don't buy you girls coats, isn't it?"
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AND, to motivate Daisie to wearing her very expensive North Face jacket,
instead of a "fashionable but impractical" cotton one--
I was an eensy bit rude.
When I went to pick her up at school,
with the wind howling and snow flying--
I rolled up to the school going 5 mph (noone was behind me)
and even occasionally stopped on the way up the drive there,
in her full view.
mwah ha ha.
When she too, climbed in complaining of waiting outside in the cold,
I think I may have repeated the same "It's too bad your mother won't buy you a good coat."

SO this morning,
I am grateful to say that my Colorado-born/raised children
actually put on shoes that covered their feet
n' walked out the door with good coats.

If nothing else,
at least their teachers will know that they OWN them, right?

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Anonymous Comments:
I don't know what happened

or how it happened
but all of a sudden my COMMENTS box
has been filling up with spam left by
Anonymous wingnuts.

Some aren't even in english, no kidding.

So I've poked around on my settings a bit
and am no longer allowing
Anonymous comments.

Has anyone else had this problem?
(hopefully I've adjusted my comments correctly so real people can still comment.)