Well, the holidays are officially over. Gone are
the days of Baileys in my coffee and extra cookies at lunch. (And tea time. And
dessert. And before bed snack.) Decorations and fruit cakes have been boxed away
for another year and children are back to school.
Wait... No! Both London school boards have declared
a Snow Day and that means parents are frantically trying to arrange child care
and employers are facing a morning of delayed commuters and called-in personal
days.
We here at ContestHound, however, are seeing
first-hand the benefits of owning a family-run home business: no child care or
work panic. We just have to contend with three kids that we would rather have
had out of the house today, after two and a half weeks of non-stop "Can you take
me to so-and-so's?" and "Will you play with me?" and "Go to your room and leave
your sister alone!" and "MO-OM!!"
Don't get me wrong - I love my kids like crazy. But
this extra "holiday" I've been given is really pushing the crazy
part!
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.ca
