Snow day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the ground cold enough for snow (or more typically, ice) likely to stick for days?

Have you been outside?

It's 40 out. Sunday has a high of 38.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

We just had 2 weeks of no school. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

We just had 2 weeks of no school. No thanks.

PP and I’m excited to be home with my 2DC-college students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

Never change, bitter shrews of dcum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never change, bitter shrews of dcum.

Seriously. We haven’t had a good snowstorm in years. Let’s enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never change, bitter shrews of dcum.

Seriously. We haven’t had a good snowstorm in years. Let’s enjoy it.

Easy for you to say when you have nowhere to be.

[Anonymous]

Culpeper county has a preemptive closing on Monday and Tuesday. For Fairfax, wunderground says 8 inches, weather channel says 7-10 inches, Fox news say 4+ inches, and the default weather app (on iPhone) says 9-11 inches. I guarantee that schools will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, regardless of the amount of snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never change, bitter shrews of dcum.

Seriously. We haven’t had a good snowstorm in years. Let’s enjoy it.

Easy for you to say when you have nowhere to be.

This! I used to love snow days as a young, single adult. I’m sure I’ll love them again as an empty nester. But it’s tone deaf to come on to a FCPS message board as someone who doesn’t even have kids in school anymore and be like “wheeee! This is so cozy and fun!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

First time poster on this thread. I empathize deeply with you. Lockdown, two weeks of holiday - generally wildly unstructured - and then the threat of another week of that. When my kids were your kids ages we had a few winter breaks like that. I used to have a pit in my stomach with the forecast. It sucks. But the suck is mostly in the moment.

You didn’t ask for advice but I’ll offer it anyways. Try to ignore the work stress and lean into the kid fun stuff. Shift your perspective, even if only to self-preserve your sanity (which is understandably stressed).

My kids are in MS and upper ES now and I’d give anything to have a couple days of them when little, and playing in snow together. One day when my spouse was out of town during a DC snowfall and I had to thread together work remotely plus handle a 2 and 5 year old (one with SN) solo, I brought in our water table into the tiled area and filled it with snow. They LOVED it and still bring it up sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never change, bitter shrews of dcum.

Seriously. We haven’t had a good snowstorm in years. Let’s enjoy it.

Easy for you to say when you have nowhere to be.

This! I used to love snow days as a young, single adult. I’m sure I’ll love them again as an empty nester. But it’s tone deaf to come on to a FCPS message board as someone who doesn’t even have kids in school anymore and be like “wheeee! This is so cozy and fun!”

Sorry, I'm a parent and snowstorms are fun. For my kids and for me, even with the shoveling and somehow getting work done.

This is the school forum, we're mostly all parents of schoolchildren here. We're not hoping for our kids to be home, we're hoping for snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

I’ve never uttered these words or entertained this thought. Surely we can make the best of it. Sledding, ⛄️, hot chocolate, baking cookies. Something (not nothing).