Snow Day!

Today school was cancelled in my school district due to the weather.

This is my 21st year working in my school district, and I can think of only two other years in which we had a school cancellation prior to Christmas. Once was a snowstorm like this year, and the other year wasn't actually snow at all--two years ago the remnants of a hurricane blew through Kentucky, knocking out power all over the state. My district missed a day of school because of this. So a snow day in December is very rare for us.

And it couldn't have come at a better time.

December is--from a paper work perspective--absolutely the busiest month of the year for me, and I missed a week of work right at the beginning of the month, which put me WAY behind. I joked with administrators last week that I had five things that I absolutely HAD to get done before Thanksgiving, and that I was down to only three of them left to do. After a day of work today with many fewer interruptions than usual, I can say that I now only have ONE thing left to do that I absolutely HAVE to get done before Thanksgiving! So that's progress...

Also, the snow is nice because it's actually starting to look like Christmas outside!