Modern Mom: School Daze

I will never forget the thrill of a snow day. It was so much better than a planned vacation day, providing both the surprise factor and the giddy anticipation as the newscaster read through all the towns that preceded mine alphabetically (back in the dark ages pre-Internet). So I feel a bit hypocritical now. On the one hand, I want my son to have the great feeling of finding out school is closed because of snow. I get so excited thinking about spending the day sledding together, drinking hot chocolate, and snuggling on the couch for a movie. But then I remember that just because he has a snow day doesn’t mean I do. My daydream gets interrupted by my nightmare of having to figure out at the last minute whether my husband or I is going to be the one to stay home from work, which meetings can be rescheduled and which can be done remotely. If only as parents, we could plan ahead for snow days it would all be so much simpler. We’d just have to make sure to keep it a secret from our kids so they’d still get to experience what it’s like to get a “pass” for the day.