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