To The Snow That Saved My Reputation

Dear Snow,

Thank you for saving me from panic, embarrassment, and most importantly, from ruining my punctual reputation. 

You see, last Friday morning, I received a rude awakening from an obnoxious someone calling me early in the morning, just 20 minutes before my alarm was to wake me (don't you hate that?). I fumbled with the buttons on my phone to quiet the call, but I must have turned off my alarm in my dreamy, incoherent state because I promptly went back to sleep and my alarm did not go off 20 minutes later as it should have. 

You must know what a solid sleeper I am, Snow; you saw how I slept through the next hour and then some. I awoke to my child bouncing a ball in the hallway just outside my bedroom door. Since it is unusual for her to wake up before me on a school day, I was curious what time it was and glanced at my phone to found out. 

7:43! What?! It was 7:43! I had exactly two minutes to get my child dressed, fed, hair combed, and her lunch made in order to leave with enough time to drive her to school so she could promptly arrive before the final 8:00 bell. 

But, when I glanced out the window and saw heaps and heaps and heaps of you on the ground, Snow, I wondered who had made that irritating, early-morning phone call to me so I checked my voicemail.

It was the school district calling to tell me that school would be starting two hours late due to the snow! You saved me! You saved me, Snow!

And not only did you come down hard enough to stop the buses and some power lines, but you kept coming down, down, down, down! And at 8:30 I got another phone call to tell me school had been cancelled! Hooray! 

So, instead of a frantic, stressful scramble-of-a-morning, you gave me a calm, easy-going morning full of homemade waffles and cheerful children. Because of you, Snow, even Daddy got to stay home from work!

You gave our entire family hours and hours of new, adventurous playtime outside and a great excuse to build a cozy fire and roast hot dogs and marshmallows when we came in.

I don't even mind the heavy branches you caused to fall from our trees (and the trees all over the city) because you gave us a great day!

Next time I sleep-in like that, Snow, feel free to come the way you did. Thank you, my Snowy friend.

Oh, and by the way, you are so beautiful!

Affectionately,
A New Fan of Winter

PS. Did you see the angel I left for you?