*Crack*
*Cr-unch*
"Watch out!" whispered Busy Girl as I made my way across her bedroom to tell her good night last night.
"What was that?" I asked, afraid to move any further, for fear of...well, I don't know, but, you never know what's in her room.
"Crayons", she replied very matter of factly, as if everyone had crayons on the floor surrounding their bed.
"Okaaay..."
"It's to make it snow".
I hadn't heard that one before.
Color me informed.
Hey, when you live in the South, you do what you can when the word "snow" is bandied about and you want a day off from school.
So, add this one to the things one must do in order to conjure up a snow day off from school.
Other time tested elementary (and now middle school, apparently) snow day rituals:
- Wearing your pajamas inside out and backward (bonus: not only will you likely still have to go to school, you won't get much sleep, either)
- Putting a white crayon in the freezer and putting it under your pillow before bed
- Sleep on the opposite end of your bed
- Put a silver spoon under your pillow
- Put ice cubes in the toilet
- Run around the kitchen table five times (Tricky here, as it's against a wall)
As I ponder going back to work tomorrow, I casually wonder if there's an age limit on these rituals.
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Wish I'd known these yesterday and I might have tried some. Instead, I was up early and driving our daughter to school so she wouldn't have to wait for the bus in sub-zero windchill.
Of course, when I was her age, I walked to school in that kind of weather all the time.
I can only dream about living in a place where one dreams about having snow. Trust me, the reality isn't worth dreaming over. Boy, I hate living in the north.
HA! Too funny! What creativity your cherub hath demonstrated! Very impressive indeed! I especially liked the ice cubes in the loo idea. Such an absurdity never would have crossed my mind. Perhaps the more absurd, the more effective.... Time will tell for you.
My youngest cherries are only six and cannot yet fully appreciate the grand and glorious wonderment that a snow day possesses. They still love school and, in fact, mourn the days when they cannot be with their teachers, for whom they hold more adoration than for the sun and moon put together. The day will come, however, when I shall expect to see the crayon on the wall (or spread across the bedroom floor, whichever gets the job done right). ;-)
As for the adults in this household--we simply become obsessed with the Weather Channel at an ungodly hour and intermittently view local television stations, where we glue our faces to the screen, sliding left to right, literally eye-to-eye with that stupid scroll thingy at the bottom, living in fear that we will miss the L's or the W's entirely.
We do this, of course, because it ensures that we will be the first to know school's out (i.e. front row seats).
No one said we were smart.
Thanks for sharing your hilarity! :-)
My kids try the same tricks but never works. I also live in Tennessee so it is a major deal when we get snow. I really wanted one of them to work today also as I returned to work after being off since December 21.
Ah yes, Bossy has heard of many of those rituals. She doesn't know about their effectiveness, but she does know a way to conjure rain: leave your driver's-side window open. Rains buckets every time.
Oh man, we're doing so many things WRONG here! I'm putting away the glitter and bubble blowers - we thought that would bring the snow our way for once (I think the last time I saw snow I was 7).
We don't go back until tomorrow, but if we would have gone today, school might have been canceled, we got about 6 inches. The novelty of snow wears off after about 1/2 hr in it, so your girl really isn't missing much.
I could send you some of the 11.5 inches we got here. I'm getting sick of snow.
We have found that the one way to ensure that there *is* school, is to not do your homework in anticipation of a snow day. Ironically here in Chicago we have very few snow days (3 in 10 years) because the road plowing people deal with the snow so well. It has to be actively blizzarding right at bus time in order for them to cancel. Or 20 degrees below zero and the buses won't start!
I live up North. If I do them backwards will it prevent snow ?
My sure fire snow day ritual was to do my homework... (I lived in Oregon, so if there was the slightest bit of snow on the ground school was sure to be canceled.), It was uncanny.. if I did my homework it would snow and school would be canceled, if I hadn't done my homework it wouldn't snow and I'd have to go to school. Just murphy's law, but it totally worked (also, it might help to get your kids to do their homework!)
I found her snow day! It was here at my house. I hope she put the crayons away tonight. I need my kid to go to school!!
Here's an easy one; send Busy Girl my way; we've got plenty here. Better hurry though, it's supposed to be in the 40's by the weekend. It was 9 degrees for the high today.
Only January and I'm so sick of snow days I'm thinking of starting some anti-snow day rituals having to do with sleeping in a bating suit and drinking Margaritas before bed. Arghhh. I can't take another inch of the white stuff!
I understand that filling your shopping cart with bread and milk at Krogers will make the local meteorologists predict snow... does that count?
Ohhhh...Magnuts has never seen snow. It is 17 degrees outside right now and dry...welcome to south Alabama...
You forgot the obvious conjuring trick: Move to Maine (especially this year!)
I've never heard these before. Then again living in Northern Michigan we don't have to have rituals to conjure up snow days...LOL! They conjure themselves up sometimes on a pretty regular basis - depending on what old man winter is doing.