Monday, March 7, 2011

Snow Day Results!

Here are the four winners! In no particular order.

(Christie Allen, I need your address so I can get you your mug)


Category: Most Realistic

Day of school cancelled

Antsy children climbing walls

Drinking heavily

-Christie


Category: Best Kid Entry

Very windy cold

daddy could not go to work

So mommy made crepes

-Scout (age 4)

Category: Best Contemporary

another snow day

don't like to ski or snow board

instead, there's facebook

-Kim


Category: Best International Non-Snow Day Snow Day Haiku

It's not snowing here

Crocuses on Woodhouse Moor

And sunshine for once

-Max


And the rest of the snow day haiku magic!


amino acids

gluconeogenesis

not cancelled today

-Autumn


Snow! Ridiculous!

Nothing left to do but laugh,

And shovel, again.

-Elsa

Snow day today. And

All I have to do: decide

Roseanne or Party Down?

-Brooke


Swirling, whirling white

Fire's blazing, wrapped up tight

Miss those Vermont days

-Jen


AM Radio

Delivers Local Closures

All Children Rejoice

-Kevin


Driveways are shoveled

Beckoning the City plow

Alas, start again.

- Megan Moir


see the snow mounds lite

crystal bounty of white haze

day beckons me home

-Andy


Let's lay here all day

Starving together in bed

At least we'll be warm

-Dana


i have been snowed in

by drifts of snotty tissues,

snow day is sick day.

-Sarah


up north may be snow

but here the sap is flowing

water's many forms

-Jessica


snow for his birthday

thirty four and so much more

work day turns to play

-Emily


Soft ponderous flakes

Ice crystals born among clouds

bringing freedom down

-Ace


Snow up to my knees

spring break in the winter time

knitting drinking tea

-aDeana Moore

Snow Day Mug Giveaway!




In honor of the snow day, I'm giving away these four mugs.
Send me your best snow day haiku and the top four win (remember it's 5,7,5)!
I'll pick the winners by the end of the day.
Happy snow day!

E-mail me at: katiemariedyer@hotmail.com