For the Love of Snow Days

There are so many reasons to LOVE "snow days"...and all the snow grinches out there try to ruin them.  Sorry though - y'all can't ruin a snow day for a teacher.  You know how exciting snow days were when you were in school?  Yeah, doesn't even come close.  You know that commercial where the kids start cheering and fist pumping when they see their school on the list of closings?  They need one that shows the teachers popping champagne bottles and throwing lesson plans in the air. (Just kidding...we would never throw our lesson plans in the air. We work entirely too hard on them for such callousness.)

These are the things I wouldn't have gotten to experience without MY much-appreciated snow days:

1. Morning snuggles in the bed with my baby girls.
2. Spending 30 minutes dressing the kids in snow gear...then playing outside for less than 15 minutes (their gloves got wet and THAT, as it turns out, is a crisis).
3. Walking into the living room and finding Daire on the couch, chillin' in a pair of leopard print pants, zebra print sunglasses...and no shirt.
4. Taking afternoon naps with the kids. ("Mommy, sleep with us!" Uh, OK!)
5. Hearing Jace, from the next room, answering Mickey Mouse on T.V.
Mickey: "Ahaha! Are these circles?"
Jace: "Heeell no! Those are triangles."
(I sincerely apologize for my bad parenting, but I was unable to confront her at the time. I wasn't confident in my ability to keep a straight face. I have "conversation about appropriate language" penciled into tomorrow's agenda, I swear.)
 6. Being able to stay up late and read "one more chapter" (i.e. 5 more chapters) in my books without feeling TOO guilty about it.
7. Having chocolate chip pancake picnics in the living room floor.
8. Not being expected to leave the house...at all. (But totally could...if we wanted to.)
9. Letting the girls eat popcorn and watch movies past their bedtime (9pm is like, midnight for them)...and pretending that it's for any other reason than getting them to sleep late.
10. And best of all, hearing the 500+ comments about how lucky I am to be a teacher,  and that people want to trade jobs so they can have snow days like I do... No problem! Let's do that and you just let me know when you want to trade back. (I especially love this comment coming from people who complain about being around their OWN kids for a flippin' snow day.)

So don't be a snow grinch!  Drive slow if you have to go out. Take extra gloves so you don't have to cry if yours get wet. Let your kids enjoy their day off without being made to feel like huge burdens. ("Gee whiz, I either have to be around you or get a sitter so I can work. The inhumanity! Arggh!!")  Whatever you do, don't complain to a teacher, though. We won't be able to hear you over our whooping and champagne bottle popping anyway.

♥M