Hoping for a "snow day"

Watching the winter storm warnings is making nostalgic for my childhood in the Midwest. I remember many nights going to bed hoping that the next day we wouldn't have to go to school. We would be thrilled when the phone would ring the next morning at 6 AM. (My parents were both teachers and therefore on the phone chain.)

But we had to patiently wait for morning to find out our fate. We couldn't monitor the school closings at 2 AM on the Internet! And I definitely didn't have a cell phone that I could obsess about keeping charged or enrolling correctly in the "emergency text" program through the college.

Thank goodness I have the technology to allow me to waste more time.