I loved snow days when I was teaching high school English. I would make hot chocolate and share it with my kids coming in from playing in the snow. I would catch up on reading and responding to my students’ essays, whittling down the pile. I would start to make a dinner in the mid-afternoon instead of as soon as I arrived home from a busy day in school. There would be sun and snow and a happy mom.

When I became an administrator, except when snow was up the window sills and the school offices were closed, there was a late start to the day, my kids were too old for wanting hot chocolate snacks with their mom, and I got lots of work done in the school empty of teachers and students.

The words “snow day” are an invitation to freedom and the fun of the unexpected. Wherever you are in life, take the invitation offered by these school administrators and enjoy the snow days.

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