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Snow days--Love them or hate them?

Snow days

  • Love them

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • Hate them?

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Ambivalent

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • Total voters
    22
bderby

bderby

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I LOVE them!!

My little corner of the world got to enjoy a snow day last week and it was MUCH appreciated. I teach school and so it was nice to get an unexpected day off and to just stay home with my boys. Personally, I am feeling like the weather men are just teasing us by predicting all kinds of precipitation and then it never materializes.

On the flip side, I know that some of you have been seriously hit with lots and lots of snow and you would be just as happy for it to warm up for real!

How are you feeling about snow days right now?
 
I voted for love them - but we've had 5 this year and I think that if we have any more we start adding days in the summer - so I'm good for this year :)
 
i hate winter and snow ... but since winter is non-negiotable here in NY, if i have to have the snow, i love the staying in part the most and not having to go anywhere! so i voted for "i love them" too. but we've had our quota of snow days already, so no more or, like Dana, we cut into the warm weather days and have to give those back instead. i really love the 2 hour delays too. we've had a ton of those as well. i like the sleeping in part!
 
I used to LOVE them (I taught school) as long as there weren't too many since we would have to make them up at the end of the year. Now that I'm retired I find them okay as I don't HAVE to go anywhere anyhow.
 
I think that the first real snow fall is so exciting, but I'm one of the ones that has been hit HARD with the snow and after a while it gets old. I just want spring and warm weather, this February is one of the coldest ever recorded.
 
We don't get them here. If the roads are bad they cancel buses but schools remain open so I still have to go in. That being said it's a really quiet day for me as only a handful of students show up, I'm in a high school. We had the schools closed beginning of the month due to 15" of snow in less than 24 hours, first time in over 10 years, lol.
 
I'm a teacher and I hate them! But I just hate winter and snow period. I would much rather just take a spontaneous day off on a nice sunny day when I can do something fun, than to be trapped at home. We missed all of last week and all of this week so far...looking like the rest of the week as well. I have only been able to leave my house once in all that time. Talk about stir crazy!
 
Hmmm....this was a hard one to answer. I might be the only one so far who said hate them, but it's not that I hate them, but I don't love them, but I'm not ambivalent to them either. Let me explain...if the snow day falls on my normal day off, then I don't mind them, because it's nice to have the kids home with me and there is always an "excitement" around them! But if it happens on a work day for me, that just creates extra hassle with trying to find a sitter, etc... Unfortunately here in MI, just because schools close, you don't get a free pass to not go to work. Offices and companies never close. So that creates extra hassle and mommy guilt. We have had 7 I believe now, so we are over our limit, and will have to make time up at the end of the year - when we all want to be out enjoying the short bit of good weather that we get! There ya have it - I'm not ambivalent because it does make a difference in this season, but I can't say strongly either way that I love or hate them...does that make sense?! :)
 
I love them! We rarely get them here in the city though. We've missed a lot this year and last due to cold, but a true snow day is rare... usually only after a blizzard. The kids spend the day outside playing with friends and I make cinnamon rolls... it's a good day (and it's only one day!!). The days off for extreme cold wear me out. There's nothing particularly fun about them, it looks pretty out but it's brutal to leave the house, so we don't and we go a bit stir crazy. My daughter goes to private school and is more likely to have a snow day than a cold day (and they have built in snow days)... my son goes to public and they are more likely to have a cold day than a snow day... so their days off for weather rarely coincide. The public schools have no built in days, so they're tacking days onto the end of the school year now. :-/
 
I'd love to have a snow day! But only for a day and then back to our warm weather. It's been unseasonably warm here this winter.
 
I've never really experienced a snow day. I grew up in Florida and it never snowed. I went to university and grad school in Minnesota, and there was exactly ONE day out of eight years where classes were cancelled due to weather (extreme wind chills). There haven't been any snow days since I've been in Denmark, either, and I don't really expect any. The weather here is quite mild.
 
I enjoy them when they are sporadic but not multiple days in a row. Even though they are a nice break, I don't like having to make them up in June!
 
I voted "love them" because I usually do but I was a little torn since we are on our 8th snow day here. It's cold and everyone is cooped up in the house and momma is just about to lose her mind with all the fighting.
 
I think we have a few built into the schedule, but we rarely use them...I'm pretty ambivalent. I don't mind, since I'm home =)
 
I love them, but... I don't love shoveling the snow so I can leave the house after we have one!
 
Last year I hated them because we had a lot and bad weather to accompany them. I hate the snow. And the cold.

This year we haven't had as many days and the school board redid our calendar so we have 13 days built in. We've used up close to half of them, but they've been more sporadic this year and they haven't phased me as much. Maybe I am just used to it now!
 
My kids are old enough that they do their own thing, so it doesn't make a difference to me whether they're here or not. LOL. But now we've used up all of our snow days and they get school work to do for every day they miss. Not as fun for either of us.
 
I soooooo wanted to see snow when I first came to Europe.
To be honest?
I used to hate winter.
Now I love winter sunny days, and snow days are gorgeous for photos, be in doors drinking hot chocolate and watching movies or even cooking something.... but only if I'm in doors.
In London snow means closure of schools, things not working, impossible to drive....
So, ambivalent I think, as I love them from my window....
 
It so depends on your location and vocation as to the impact that snow days have, doesn't it?

Where I am in Oklahoma, they do not have the equipment or salt to adequately or efficiently clear the streets and so it feels like you are taking your life in your hands to venture out. I am something of a hermit anyway and I enjoy the excuse to leave my normal errands and stuff and take a day to cuddle up with my boys, watch some shows, do some scrapping.

I grew up in northern Illinois and we rarely missed school for snow, it was more likely to be a cold day or ice--those were the things that would cause us to miss school. And for those of you who still have to go in to work and have to figure out childcare, I can understand the frustration with them.

Our Oklahoma weather has been so crazy this year--we have bitter cold one day, snow the next and the following day it is 60 degrees and chance for snow the following day!
 
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