Weather Days Off School

My kids are in middle school, and while we have had many 2-hour delays for weather this season, we haven't had any days off. Until today. Today was supposed to already be a day off for elementary and middle school for parent-teacher conferences, but high school was still in session. With the temperature a lovely 17 BELOW ZERO here in central Ohio, school was actually cancelled last night, which my kids thought was quite ironic - their first snow day and it's already a scheduled day off! What they don't know is, they now get Tuesday off for rescheduled conferences, making this an official 5-day weekend. The weather was bad enough yesterday that I didn't send them (wind chill -11 for the bus stop; level 1 snow advisory for the county), so this gives us a nice, long stretch to hunker down and stay warm. It's supposed to be warmer tomorrow, and I may take DD to a nearby town for part of her birthday present - a pottery place where you pick out a piece, paint it and they fire it - and hopefully can get the little sticker on my license plate without it cracking and disintegrating, and Sunday, of course, we'll head to church and Grandpa's, but otherwise, we'll be home for the duration. My kids will be absolutely thrilled!