Yes, we need them too.

The following are good reasons for a home school teacher/mom to take a work day…

• The house is a mess.
• Mountains of laundry are cropping up.  It’s particularly bad if you can hardly reach the knobs on the washer.
• You threw a party celebrating your daughter’s 13th birthday over the weekend where you entertained and fed about 20 of her friends.
• Four of the friends spent the night at your house on Saturday.
• Your son played in a baseball tournament on the same weekend in a town over an hour away.
• On Sunday your baby screamed in the car all the way to said town because it was just the two of you.  Usually he has someone in the back seat to entertain him.  You pull over on the side of a country road three times to stick his pacifier in his mouth.  He waits until you’ve just pulled back out on the road before he continues his lament.  You try handing him everything within arm’s reach:  a diaper, a plastic spoon, a hat, the cigarette lighter.  Nothing works.  You’ve never been so envious of the dead opossum you passed on the side of the road, and you vow to never be alone with him in the car again….even if it means picking up a hitchhiker.
• It’s September.  The ragweed counts are high.  You’re highly allergic to ragweed.  You’re dying.
• The Bears play their season opener on Sunday night.  They lose.  To the Packers.  You cry yourself to sleep and wake up groggy.

Just one or two of the above reasons would make a good case for canceling school today to focus on your house, your lesson plans, your sinuses, on why your life is so lame that you cry over an NFL game.  I, however, have ALL of those reasons.

It is 9:10 AM on Monday.  All of my children are still in their beds.  And I don’t care.