Snow Days?

When I was in about 6th or 7th grade, we had the blizzard of  '77 and we only went to school about 3 days during the month of January.  One of the best parts of all those snow days was we had so many snow days that we didn't have to make them up!  There is a little snow in the forcast tonight and I can't help but wish, right along with the kids that school would be cancelled!  The only struggle I have is that unfortunately we have to make up our snow days now.  I miss those homeschooling days when we still had school but quickly ran through our lessons so the snow would be there to run in and then when we were cold, we'd sit by the fire and read-sometimes the entire afternoon.  So will we have a snow day?  I don't know but one thing I do know is that I'd love to turn back the clock, some days to 1977 when the biggest concern I had was listening to WAKO to see if we would have school the next day.  My favorite words those days, were..."no school for Unit 20"!  We'd run around out house and I'm sure there were moments when my mom was wishing the news would be a little different, but she never showed it.  We'd come in from playing, there would be hot chocolate and cinnamon toast made under the broiler.  We'd stand by the fire, and warm our hands but being part of that family was what warmed my heart.  Some days, I just want to turn back the clock to around 2004 when my kids were younger, and we had so much snow at Christmas time.  I miss those days, when my kids were little, when making them hot chocolate could be enough to warm them all the way through.  When reading together was not a rare thing but a daily part of our lives.  Now as the years are quickly passing, much like those big snow falls...I realize that we need to live in the moment.  We need to embrace those snowfalls-or life moments when they are thrust upon us.  We need to make sure that we're not sitting by the radio waiting to hear the news but that we're living in the moment and loving the snowfall and capturng every snowflake we can.  Catch the snowflake-it may melt on your tongue but it will create an amazing memory.  I'm catching every snowflake I can because just like those big snow falls in the past, I'll find a time when I look back on those special memories are all it takes to warm my heart.