Snow Day!

Jill Wagner
Fall/Winter/Holidays/School Memory
Snow Day!
Waking up to my alarm reminded me that there was another lengthy day of school ahead of me. It was an arctic December morning, I was in the fourth grade and I felt like I would do anything to avoid school. The second time my alarm began to beep, I heard my mom come into my room. Being the young and tired girl I was, I covered my head with my pillow and acted as if I was asleep. I heard her say something but ignored it because I assumed it was about getting ready for school. When she walked out of my room and closed the door I became quite curious, so I jumped out of bed and gazed out my window. To my amazement, my entire backyard was covered in snow as if it was a winter wonder land. Filled with excitement I ran into my parents’ room and told them to look out the window. I screamed with joy, “Mom, Dad! Look outside! I bet we don’t have school!” They casually laughed and told me “We know, now go back to sleep!” I agreed but instead of going back to sleep (boring!), I tiptoed downstairs and got myself a bowl of cereal.

After a couple of hours it was about 11:30 and my parents and siblings were all awake. My sisters and I were very eager to go outside to play in the snow. Once it was noon my mom finally permitted us to go outside. After a half an hour of getting scarves, gloves, hats, and more we could go outside. Stepping out into the snow made us feel like we were on a mission to get to the top of a snowy mountain when really our main goal was to get off the deck. The snow was about half way up our shins making the experience even more enjoyable. The first thing we did was shovel all of the snow off the deck and into one huge pile. Once we finished our dad came out and packed the pile down and then poured water onto it making an amazing sledding hill. Once we began to sled my best friend came outside and ran over to join in on the fun. After a while we became uninterested with the hill and moved onto “bigger and better things”, or in other words, the rest of the backyard. We started off by rolling snow into massive snowballs and using them as the walls to our forts. As soon as our fort was finished we decided to have a snowball fight against my dad. We thought we could beat him but his perfectly aimed snowballs could not be tamed. Beginning to feel cold and tired we asked for some hot chocolate, which was quickly brought out to us by my mom. We were very thankful and the second we finished, our strength was restored and we were back to conquering the backyard.

After a few more hours had passed, we all became very cold and tired and chose to go inside. After my friend had left I decided to take a nap. When I woke up it was already morning and when I looked outside, to my surprise, it had snowed again! I was so happy to hear that we didn’t have school and that we had an entirely new day and new layer of snow to play on. Over all this is one of my favorite winter memories mainly because it is just one example of how I would spend my snow days and other cold wintery days. Although winter is not my favorite season, I still enjoy they holidays, family gatherings, and snowdays!