Its the first snow day for my daughter's school this winter. She is thrilled! I am happy she is thrilled...mostly because I started to remember the snow days (very, very infrequent) I experienced growing up in northwest Indiana...where the first words a child learns are "lake effect snow!"
I think I remember being happy that school was closed on a day it was supposed to be in session because it meant something out of the ordinary. Now that is an adult reflection on a childhood experience, but I believe it to be true. My daughter will be forced to go to the office for a few hours with me today, she won't see all of her friends, and my guess is that by midday or early afternoon I will hear her say something like "I don't know why we didn't have school today."
But the routine has been shaken up! That's the joy of a day like today if you are in the fifth grade.
Makes me wonder why I don't shake up my routine once in a while.