Snow My Goodness!

As everyone knows by now, Pittsburgh is smothered in snow. Not as much as our souther neighbors in the DC area, who have been hit more times than I can remember in the past two weeks, but enough to have our city halt.

The Boy and I snuck out of town just before the bit Snowmageddon (is that what we are calling it?) started to fall, but faced above-average inches in Findlay (Home of Big Ben), Ohio. Luckily, the only major fallout from the snow was a cancellation of the Boy's nephew's basketball game and some snow drifts that were up to my waist. The roads were bad in Findlay, but since it's flat as a pancake in there and the Boy's car has 4-wheel drive, we were fine to make the 10 minute trip from his mom's house to his sister's. And we had a lovely, relaxing "Extended Christmas" playing with the Wii, getting tickled by nephews and eating. Our trip home was uneventful, the roads cleared...that is until we reached PA. Yes, the highways and local roads were bad once entering our home state, we did see 6 tractor trailers jack-knifed or abandoned (as well as one bus on its way to Wheelings Downs), but we made it home *thankfully* in one piece.

Which brings us to today, and the third day of no work, no school, no class. The library opened its doors for a few hours on Tuesday, but as soon as the snow started falling, we locked up and headed home. The local school district has already called for a Snow Day tomorrow and, thanks to our policy, we close when they close.

And other than a few little twitches of stir crazy, it's been nice. I've cleaned house a bit in my time off, cooked a meal, baked some cookies (from scratch)!, played lots of Doodle Jump, read, played my first game of Bannanagrams, prepped for story time, spent too much time of Facebook, watched bad TV, listened to episodes of This American Life (thanks to their awesome new app) and slept in. Tomorrow I plan on tackling a new knitting project and hopefully visiting my Dad who is still in the hospital (but doing well).

Maybe it's the kid in me, and maybe it's the woman who was a teacher after college, but I love a good snow day. And I'm entirely grateful that I still work in a profession that calls snow days. One more reason to embrace libraries and non-profits! Though it could be viewed as an excuse to be lazy, I like to think it's just a guaranteed way to make time for yourself and start/finish things you've been putting off. Who doesn't like lounging in comfy clothes and eating comfort food? It's a win-win.

How have you been spending your snow days? What is something you've been meaning to do but keep putting off (like really, I should use this time to do my taxes but alas, my W2 is at my parent's house, not the boy's).