Icestorms and Guinea pigs

Over the last couple of years I  have become very familiar with the Midwestern icestorms, and how they can shut down the entire town. It is not uncommon for work to be cancelled,restaurants to shut down or church to be cancelled. One thing I have not had experience with is the school closing procedures.  No one ever told me that if there is an icestorm in the forecast, (but at the present time it is clear outside), they will cancel school, put your 5 year old on a bus and send him home 2 hours early without contacting you.  As a mom, you are supposed to sit home and watch the news and wait for them to post a message that scrolls across the bottom of you television telling you which schools have been cancelled.  Had I known any of this, I would have been home yesterday at 2:00 instead of out trying to get some last minute Christmas shopping done.  I also would not have received a phone call from my very nice neighbor telling me that there was a little boy sitting outside on my front porch in the freezing cold.  Needless to say, today I feel like the world's worst mom.  I am just grateful that Ammon was very calm and collected about the whole situation, I am grateful that I made him memorize my cell phone number and I am grateful that he remembered it.  Thank you to my annonomous neighbor who was kind enough to help Ammon, thank you to Brittany for letting Ammon come to your house until I could get home and thank you to Tausha for explaining to me why Ammon was home at 2:30 instead of 4:00. Sometimes I feel like this whole parenting thing is a big experiment and I have been given three little guinea pigs to test my methods on.  Poor little Ammon gets to be the one who tests out everything first. Sorry buddy. I think I have school cancellations figured out now.