Snow days

One of the things that winter weather inevitably brings for me is memories of snow days from childhood.  As a child I never realized how much interruption snow days caused.  I suppose that is true for most kids.  Part of being a child, no doubt.  It was usually about getting a day or two off of school, which was always welcomed.  As I was sitting watching the news this morning and the closings were being shown across the bottom of the screen, I realized that kids today don't have that anxiety of having to wait for the next closing to pop up to see if they have school or not.  With today's technology and social media, it's far easier for schools to announce closings than it was in my day.  We had to sit there as closings were listed alphabetically.  You couldn't change the channel.  You couldn't walk away from the tv or you might miss it.  Heck, you could blink and miss it and then you'd have to wait for all of the names to cycle through again.  It was so frustrating.  But, in hindsight, that was part of the fun of snow days.

These days, I spend my snow days inside.  I have no desire to be out in the cold unless I'm taking Squirt out and that is maybe once a day when it snows.  He really has to go if he goes out in this weather LOL I enjoy the comforts of being inside and watching the snow fall from my living room window.  I put on some music and have my coffee.  In my mind, I imagine that I am with my parents and my grandmother, as I was as a child.  That was an incredibly secure feeling.  I look back on those times and realize how good my parents were at making sure we had everything we needed.  I don't ever remember panic shopping during impending weather.  We always had a well stocked kitchen.  Now, maybe Mom shopped while we were at school and I just didn't know it.  But I never worried.  If the power went out, we had a working fireplace that was wonderful.  I miss that.  

My thoughts on snow days have changed now that I miss work on account of them.  The way I enjoy snow days has changed in that I sit back and take it all in.  But my memories of snow days will never change.  

That is all.