In the last months, we’ve missed 2 Sundays of church due to overnight snow, falling heaviest during the church-commuting-hours. This is unprecedented. This morning, we awoke to a tapping on our windows.
The Sunday morning snowstorm was a day late.
One of the truths about working in technology is that you can work from anywhere, as long as you have your trusty laptop and high speed internet access. So on one hand, this is great news for a snow day. Both my husband and I are staying safely off the treacherous roads. Five years ago, this would’v been a fantastic and relaxing opportunity. We would’ve looked gooey-eyed across the table at each other while writing our SQL scripts and complaining about the latency of the VPN. But, as you all recall from my incessant complaining, daycare is at the same location work is. So if I’m not going in to work, the kids aren’t going in to daycare.
What this means for me NOW is that I have two full time jobs I’m supposed to pull off today: full time getting coding done, and full time keeping people alive and reasonably happy. (So far this morning, Thane’s been able to trap himself in his toy bin and irritate his brother by playing with noisy toys while Grey was watching tv.) Add in undigging the driveway; a two hour job I’d guess, assuming this doesn’t turn to snow with a layer of ice on top. Happily, my husband is home to share the pain. Sadly, he didn’t bring his laptop home, which means he’s in the attic where the desktops are while I keep the home fires burning in the living room.
Thus the excitement of my life! So tell me, what do you do on snow days? Do you look forward to them? Dread them? What day of the week would you most like to have a snow day on?
My Truant Pen 
The most awful snow day I remember was when you and Heidi were still home and Matthew was too young to take caare of himself. Dad and I went to a job interview the night before — lasted until midnight. Then Dad went to catch a plane for Spokane and I headed home. It was snowing like crazy. I wondered why they weren’t plowing the roads, then I turned off onto North road and discovered they had been plowing the roads. Now I was plowing the road. The electricity went out. I had a cold. I remember sitting in front of the fireplace, our only source of heat trying to entertain Matthew. You girls had wisely chosen to sleep in. It was the height of misery.
I like to walk in the snow on snow days. I like to read in front of the fire!
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