Snowdays

     When you are a child, the words that never fail to bring joy to your heart are "***** Central schools are closed today due to snow."
     Snowdays! Mini-vacations that evoke memories of mornings spent lying in bed, afternoons with a good book, and hours spent in pajamas.
    Those are the memories... But what is the truth behind every snowday? 

This is what greeted us at 5:45 this morning.

     As it turns out, behind all those happy memories lay vehicles buried under mounds of snow.

     And if your spouse is not fortunate enough to have a snowday and must go to work, it means the morning out in the cold, shoveling, snowblowing and sweeping off cars and trucks.


     I won't say that those evocative words "School is cancelled..." don't still hold an incredible allure. But it is tempered these days with the realization of what awaits beyond the back door!