Ok, I am not in school and our little one is still too young for school, but it is still a snow day for the area schools.  My friend has 7 of her 8 children at home today trying to keep them occupied because they are home for the second day in a row without school. 

After hearing her kids bustling around the house, it make me think of my own childhood and going to public school and praying, absolutely begging God for a snow day or two that year.  LOL  They were like mini vacations for us.  Mom would make us breakfast and bake all day long (or so it seemed to us), while we went outside and played in the snow.  I couldn't understand as a youngster why they called off snow because of the snow.  I was out in it for hours and yeah it was cold, but never too cold to not go outside and play after having hot cocoa and bundling up!!!  LOL  We would make snow forts and igloos with the neighborhood kids and my friends parents would take turns calling us kids in for snacks and hot cocoa!!!  It was the best.

The best thing though was sledding down the big hill at school.  You see I lived right beside the school on the same block.  So all the kids in the neighborhood would bring a snow tube or sled and we would sled down the hill, tumble and roll down the hill till it was dark out.  LOL  We found out the more people or weight on the sled, the faster it went.  What a joy to make snow angels and snowmen in the snow too.  My mom always had the carrots.  Isn't that funny that I remember such simple facts about it like that??

Out little man will be two in April and already he has shown alot of interest in the snow and loves to walk and listen to the crunching underneath him.  I can't wait to watch him grow up and have the fun in the snow, making angels and snowmen, sledding and building forts and igloos as I did when I was little.  It is wonderful to watch him grow up and develop his personality and likes and dislikes!

So, what is one of your memories from a snow day when you were younger???

God's Blessings,

Amy Jo