SNOW DAY!!!!!!!
If you grew up with snow, you probably remember being a kid and hoping for a snow day.
Well, thousands of kids are home today, wreaking havoc on their parents' work days and Valentine's Days.
I can remember being in elementary school...waking up super-early to listen to the radio, to hear if the Newton Public School system had canceled classes for the day. We didn't have the "crawl" on tv back then, so even on TV the poor anchors had to read all the schools.
Since I work from home, usually Snow Days don't affect me at all. Today though - I get to have my fiance & his sweet girls home with me all day long. Since they're 9 & 13 years old, they're napping and watching last nights' dog show and drinking hot chocolate and chillaxing.
Here's what it looks like outside the window of the Cheetah Lounge North today:
If you know Boston at all, that grey building in the middle is the John Hancock Tower - it's one of the tallest buildings in town, and you can't even see the top of it!
The streets are a mess, too:
If you can get to a set of speakers today at 3:30 pm ET, we'll be talking to iVillage's own Josey Miller about Valentine's Day! You can listen in here.
I hope you're making the most of the weather, and having a great Valentine's Day! What are you doing?
Cheers, Lara
Comments
Lara: I used to love the snow days when I did not have kids. There is nothing like knocking boots in front of the fire. Now, with 4 kids under 7, all we do is suffer and pray for relief
You have FOUR KIDS UNDER SEVEN?? How do you even find time to read this blog??
I am lucky - I skipped the first 9 years of parenting my fiance's girls. Went right to the good part - snuggling on the couch to watch American Idol and eat ice cream! Ray of hope, you breeders - there are better days ahead!
Hi Lara! As a fellow Newtonian, I loved your post this morning. And since moving back to Newton after years and years of not living here, I have entered into a deeply neurotic but hopefully funny haze of constant Retro-Memories. Like running into girls I knew in Hebrew School who hated me then and who still won't talk to me. Or feeling guilt and shame because I can't figure out how to cook dinner everynight the way other people can. And all about my deep love for Brigham's ice cream. And my someone unnatural love of failure. Come visit my blog (or, brant: brag+rant) to join me in my psychoanalytic soup....www.laurazigman.com/blog/
Meanwhile, I'll keep reading yours....love, Laura
I grew up in Buffalo so I love snow. Where I am now,we don't get as much snow so when we do I enjoy it. My kids had snow days yesterday and today and they are loving it. It's fun.
I live in Weymouth Mass!!! I remember the snow days as a kid too!! Having snowball fights, jumping into snow banks and then the nice warm feeling of when it was time to go inside, your cheeks and fingers were red and your chin was frozen so you could hardly talk!! Such fond memories!!
I live in Phoenix, AZ and..."Snow Day"?? What's that? Just kidding. I lived in numerous places as a school kid and had numerous snow days and loved them. Now I live in a place where it hasn't snowed for real since I"ve been here (9 years). I have 4 children ages 3 and under ( one set of twins) and they wouldn't be in school yet anyway, but I would love to have them experience snow! You snowy residents should count yorselves lucky that you have it there and your summers are probably not 115 degrees! (obviously Phoenix isn't my first choice for a residence, but I'm stuck for now...)
I got a college snow day :) The first one my school has had in over 50 years
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thats not cool that teres no snow inhere
