Snow Day

The phrase “snow day” still puts a big smile on my face. A get-out-of-school or get-out-of-work free day. Mother Nature saying you don’t have to do what you thought you had to do. You don’t have to face whatever drudgery would have taken place if you’d had to do the daily routine.

Of course, the phrase is like speaking a foreign language to those souls who don’t keep a snow scraper in their cars year round. I don’t think “Hurricane Day” is anything like the same because people are urged to leave their homes and there is usually lots of advance notice. The beauty of a Snow Day is that you don’t always know before you go to bed at night whether or not you’ll have to hit the road in the morning or not. There’s no warning and you get to stay home.

So, I’ll raise my cup of hot chocolate (homemade with chocolate malt added) and give a toast the one of the most magical of phrases......

.......Snow Day.