My children have started waking up in the morning and instead of saying, “Good morning, Mother dear” they groggily say “Is it another snow day?” We have had a full snow day, a late start or an early release from school due to snow almost every day since 2011 began. This time it was “just” an ice storm instead of 2 feet of snow. Not too bad as ice storms go-we still have our power- but we got a snow day out of it. The trains into New York were blocked by fallen trees and ice on the wires so Dad got a snow day too. We knew that might happen when he had to scrape a 1/4 inch of ice off his car to pry it open before driving it home from the train station last night. When we asked Mr. President to help shovel the driveway again, he claimed he couldn’t do it because he found a new use for the ice on the driveway.