School's Back In, For a Little While at Least

Posted by Diane Laney Fitzpatrick Aug 29, 2008

It's hard to believe this, but it's only August and my kids have already had a snow day.

Well, not really a snow day, but it may as well have been one. Here is South Florida, we don't get too many snow days, but we do get hurricane days or, in the case of last week, tropical storm days.

I couldn't believe it. They had their first day of school and then missed their second day because tropical storm Fay came whipping around the bend from Cuba and cancelled our schools.

When my kids were little and we lived up north, they would pray for school to be cancelled.

"Put your pajamas on backwards and put a spoon under your pillow," my son would tell everyone in the family. One particularly bad winter I lost an entire placesetting of silverware.

I must admit, I never minded unexpected days off school. I got a kick out of listening to the news, hearing our school district listed in the cancellations, running up to their rooms and giving them the news, groping around for my spoons under their pillows, and letting them fall back asleep. We'd spend the day sledding or building snowmen, playing in the snow or getting into some big craft project.

Already looking forward to your first snow day? Start planning some fun things to do when you get an unexpected vacation day.