This is the second day this week I have been home for a snow day. I consider this one of the perks of my job, getting to stay home if the weather gets bad. There’s just nothing like it. I didn’t get to do that when I worked at a bank, a newspaper, an oil company or for the U.S. government on an air force base. Even better yet, I don’t have to make that decision on whether we have school or not, I just get to participate.

Now if you can’t tell, I enjoy snow days. Being in my warm home, hanging with the dogs, cooking, piddling in my office, it’s all good. They are mental health days for me for sure. An unexpected day off without being sick or having anything planned. Just a quiet day at home to rest, relax, cook, do laundry or not do laundry, shower or not shower. You get the point.

When I left work on Tuesday, it was the consensus that we could be out two days if everything the National Weather Service was telling us came true. Of course this is Oklahoma and you just never really know what the weather will do. My weather app on my phone was telling us one thing and the National Weather Service in Norman was telling us something else. Their outlook was far graver than what the app on my phone was saying. Alas my boss listened to the National Weather Service and our local emergency management center and my school and most schools in the state took off on Wednesday. Always better to err on the side of caution. FYI, my cell phone app was more correct than the National Weather Service for Wednesday.

So Wednesday morning I’m up and bracing for what weather is supposed to come our way. Well I need to get to Walmart and pick up a few things. I feel like cooking a couple of meals. Sometimes I actually enjoy being a housewife. I arrive at Walmart at about 10 a.m., it’s cold outside with some rain, but it’s still quite a bit above freezing so no weather yet. I get into Walmart and apparently everyone else had the same idea I did. Take a deep breath Marcy and just take your time. I began to notice a lot of children at Walmart. And why aren’t these kids in school I wondered. Oh yea, snow day. Duh. I work my way through the store, get my few items, trudge back out through the rain, load the car and home I go. I am now officially ready for weather to arrive. Well it didn’t arrive until much later in the afternoon, but when it did, WOW.

I got all caught up on my DVR watching, did a little house cleaning and at 3 I cracked open a bottle of wine and began to make a big pot of soup. Since wine and I haven’t gotten along much since my surgery, it was a risk. I am pleased to say that the small glass I had did not give me a headache and made cooking much more enjoyable. By the time Keith got home, it was sleeting and I felt pretty sure that I was going to get a call from the boss that we would be out on Thursday as well AND I DID! Woohoo – snow day #2.

Had a great dinner with my awesome husband, we watched Justified and then caught two episodes of House of Cards season 3. OMG. I am hooked on House of Cards. I can’t get enough. I think I will have to dedicate a blog to Frank and Claire in the near future. Well it’s time to go to bed and get ready to enjoy snow day #2. I decided to take a peak outside and see what was happening. Somewhere between Justified and House of Cards, the sky dumped a whole bunch of snow. You couldn’t even see where our yard stopped and the street began. It was beautiful and so quiet and snow continued to fall. I stepped out onto the back patio and took a picture of the beautiful untouched twinkling snow in our yard. Next thing I know, there are two Cavaliers in the snow and it is no longer untouched and there are two little areas that are now yellow, if you know what I mean…. AND they are covered in snow when they come in. Time to go find the dog towel.

Snow day #2 has been just as pleasant. However, today I’m thinking about what I need to get done at work tomorrow. There’s always a down side to being off unexpectedly for a couple of days.   The sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky and my weather app says it is 39 degrees outside. The snow on the streets is gone and hopefully this was the last blast of winter for this year. I am so ready for spring. A little after noon I get a call from Keith. He wants to know if I feel guilty being off on such a beautiful day. My response: NO.

I am ready for spring.

Long live snow days, but I’ve had enough for one year.