Snow day

One of my favorite parenting stories of all time comes from David Sedaris. I cannot tell you how often I think of his retelling of the snow day home from school, when midway through the day, his Mother lost it. She bundled all five of the Sedaris siblings up, threw them out, and locked the door. They stood outside the house for awhile, watching their Mother drink a glass of wine. Eventually, they tried to convince their youngest sister to lay down in front of a car, in order to be let back in as well as to punish their mother for her banishment.