I need a snow day...

I have six kids. Yep. I am not kidding. Pick your jaw up off the floor. In this modern day and age, no one has more than two kids - maybe three if you just can't control yourself. But six???
But they are my pride and joy and I would not have missed a single moment with any of them, even if that meant a few less stretch marks, more sleep, and quite a few less pounds.
Two of my chicks have already flown from my disorganized nest to nests of their own. That leaves four lovely boys to brighten each and every day of my life. They are 17 down to 7, each with their own abilities and hostilities. They leave a trail of dirty socks and brownie crumbs wherever they go.
And this morning, just as they were heading out the door to run to the school bus, I found out school was cancelled. The streets were like skating rinks in our small town, and apparently in every town across the province. Even those hefty yellow buses didn't want to brave them.
There is no joy in the world that can compare to the joy in a home when school is cancelled. You can give me a lottery win, a new baby, a romantic proposal or a free trip to the Bahamas, but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to that overwhelming sense of "My life is gooood!!!" as when school is called off for the day. Some kids head back to bed, but others just want to shlep around the house in their jammies, basking in a free day from the Universe. Time stands still on a snow day. You can dig into the lunch mom made you the night before. You can watch cartoons you haven't watched since you started Kindergarten. You can play video games to your heart's content.
And you can watch a very sad, jealous mom wave goodbye as she heads off to work. No snow days at the office, I'm afraid. Business as usual. "Don't worry, mom," they say. "We won't burn the house down."
"I know, but can you get them to cancel work?"
The roads are still icy as I write this post. Will school be cancelled again tomorrow?
Will my office call and say all the hydro is off because of ice on the lines and it wouldn't pay for me to come in??
Only in my dreams.