My mom babysat (NBA player and coach) Scott Skiles when he was a kid, my aunts and uncles were extras in the movie Hoosiers, and Dave Letterman's junior high English teacher was my junior high English teacher (several decades later).

As a child, that would sound like a great idea. As a working parent, I would be pretty mad about a last minute cancellation like that. I live in Minnesota, where snow days are inevitable, but I don't feel like this is a good reason for me to have to either find last-minute child care or call off of work and leave my unit understaffed.

My 3-year-old came to me at the park once crying because a baby *almost* touched her. She also got really upset the other night when I told her she couldn't take the broom and dustpan to bed with her.