As we sat in PD today, there was snow day energy among the teachers. Would we get our first snow day of the year on the last day of February? Would our students get one more day of Winter break?
I remember that same snow day anticipation as a child. We would go to bed after one last peek out the window to glance at the lampposts…to see if the snow had started yet. I remember waking and bounding to my window in order to lift the shade to get a glimpse of just how much snow had fallen. Then, running down the hall to my parents room, cuddling under the covers, as we listened to the radio and the long list of school delays and closings. It took a while to get to the S section and when the radio host got there, you had to listen really carefully, since many town names sounded similar to ours. Stratfield or Stratford? We often had to listen a second time to be sure.
My kids will never know this anticipation. Today, their snow day was called by 7pm the night before, long before the first snowflake ever fell. Our cell phones buzzed with text messages and phone calls and our inboxes filled with messages. All the bases were covered. We were clearly informed.
As nice as it was to turn off tomorrow’s alarms, I miss some of the mystery and wonder of snow days past.
Where There Is Joy 
I couldn’t agree more!
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Now that weather prediction has improved so much we often don’t get a snow day when we would have in the past. If they can tell the snow isn’t coming until after we’ve been dismissed then we have school as usual. I miss the mystery too!
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Yes – I too miss the anticipation! And now some schools – when there is a snow day – have zoom school – which I think is SO unfair!
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Nice to know that we were both inspired by yesterday’s lunch conversation! Megan knew way before it was announced because a friend’s Dad was on some board and he knew before any media or district could send it out. Amazing, and scary, how fast information can travel. Amazing and scary how that feeling of anticipation, unknowing is absent from so many parts of our lives.
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Our SD went to flexible instruction days, which means that they can have five snow days, but have them counted as school days since the kids will have work to do on their iPads. While we haven’t had any snow this year, I don’t love the idea of these FID days. Snow days are one of the final magical parts of childhood.
Enjoy the time at home with the girls!
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So many more snow days out here in the east. This year we’ve been snow free. Today we had a late arrival called as you said at dinner time last night.
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I love this observation so much. Your post reminds me of those memes that talk about how kids “these days” will never know the pain of commercials because of how easily we can pause our shows… Remember when you had to get a snack or go pee before the show started back up? Ha!
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