For those of you living in warm climates you may not know what a “Snow Day” is. Wikipedia describes it as:

“A snow day in the United States and Canada is a day in which school classes are cancelled or delayed by snow, heavy ice, or low temperatures.”

Kids call it the greatest day of each school year. Some call it a day off. Who ever said it was a day off was obviously not a single parent. I live in Colorado, so occasionally we will get snow days. It is rare but does happen. My daughter didn’t have one snow day last year. She was depressed all summer when reminded of this. My son did get a few but that was only because he goes to an all boys school that has students attend from as far away as 45 miles away. Snow days for my kids are better than Christmas, birthdays and the occasional check in the mail from their grandparents. You can only imagine how happy my kids are now that they are going on thier third snow day in a row. Continue reading »