Snow Day - No School

A little before 6:30 this morning I got a message that there would be no school today.  For the first time in 61 years school was cancelled because of snow.  It certainly snowed a healthy amount last night, quite possibly the biggest storm I have seen since moving here six years ago.  This is great for the area as our snow accumulation of the last few years has been dismal and this year we are at 162 percent or something like that.  I read the stats earlier today.  Well, I was excited.  I got up and went in to turn off Jack's alarm before it went off.  Somehow the kid woke up when I went in to do it and I told him there was no school, that it was cancelled because of the snow.  I told him to go back to sleep.  He was up! He was excited.  Andy also popped up with excitement.  I cannot raise that boy from the dead on any other school day but dang it, here we can actually sleep in today and these boys are up and excited before 6:30 in the morning.  What the heck?  I told them to go back to sleep but my words fell on deaf ears.  I went back and tried to go back to bed.  I lay there listening to Jack laugh out loud repeatedly.  Dang it.  Eventually I managed to fall back to sleep for a few minutes but it didn't last as long as I would have liked.  Anyway, I received notice around 8 that SUU campus was closed for the day so no school for me either.  Well, I had my online math class still.  We ended up closing the Brick House for the day as well.  There was a ton of snow and it was just going to be safer for our people to stay out of the elements.  We will be open tomorrow.  I think the kids enjoyed the day.  I certainly enjoyed getting out the snow blower and clearing some driveways and sidewalks.  Back to life tomorrow but grateful for a snow day.