Snow Day!
There’s nothing quite like a snow day. Especially when the storm falls on a weekday. I remember as a child of the 80’s, sitting in front of the radio listening to the list of school cancellations being read in alphabetical order. When Marshall was called, we would jump up and down and run around the house screaming “School’s cancelled! School’s cancelled!”
Tonight we got word that St Paul schools would be cancelled tomorrow due to a pre-Thanksgiving snow storm. There was no waiting by the radio, but I did receive a text message, email, and voicemail.
A snow day for the kids means staying up a little later, sitting by the window and watching the snow fall by candle light. During the day off, there will be movies, board games, blanket forts in the living room, freshly baked cookies, family time, playing in the snow, and shoveling. Lots and lots of shoveling.
During a rare April snow day in 2018, the kids made an epic snow fort. The fort was modeled after a similar fort that my brothers and sisters and I made growing up. I am still in search of a photograph of the original. The fort was made from bricks of snow stacked in rows about 6-8 high with the word “HONK” written on the front with food coloring.
behind the wall and cheering when cars would honk
Whether you are dreading the coming winter or as excited as my kids, I hope you will find something to savor in this first snow day.
Love your writings, Anna. The snow day reminded me of my childhood and waiting to hear if school was closed. I lived 12 miles from my school so I rode the school bus. Back in those days, they would announce that the busses were not going to pick up students in the country, but the “town kids” still had to go to school. All of that made riding the school bus for 3 hours (coming and going) a day worth it. So I found a silver lining that there was a bit of advantage in living in the country during Minnesota winters.
This makes life nowadays seem pretty easy. 3 hours on a school bus? I can’t imagine that!