Come on Fog!


“Hey, Mom.”

“Yeah.”

“Look outside,” said my smiling son.

It was after 10:00 pm and we had just finished watching Ohio University make it into the sweet sixteen. He should have been in bed earlier and I should have been in bed too but Sunday evening seemed to bring a last minute to do list. When I looked outside, I saw it. Fog. I started smiling too. This could be our last chance for a school delay in a year without one missed day or delay due to our unusually mild winter season.

“Wear your pajama pants backwards and put a spoon under your pillow,” I told my 15-year-old jokingly.

“You don't think I'll do it, do you?"

With that, he bounded down the stairs. I could hear the silverware draw open. He fetched two spoons from the tray and back up the stairs he came, taking two at a time. He appeared in my office doorway, a spoon in each hand and his plaid pajama pants on backwards. He looked at me earnestly and handed me a spoon. And yes, I did put it under my pillow. 

Update 5:15 Monday morning: It worked!

16 comments:

  1. Should have thought of that one myself! Not quite a sno day, but appreciated just the same.

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  2. I love it! PJ pants backward and a spoon under the pillow. How simple and powerful :)
    Bonnie

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  3. what a riot...and he did it...HAGM :) xo nanc

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  4. That's awesome! Love that your 15 year-old went for it. I never really thought those things worked, but perhaps I'm mistaken!

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  5. That is great!! I could see my 15 year-old doing that - seems to bring a little hope to their early mornings.

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  6. Cute story! We always did the backwards pj's but I've never heard of the spoon thing... maybe I'll have to try it next winter! :-)

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    1. Fog is predicted again for tomorrow so backwards pj's again tonight!

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  7. This was funny. I have never heard of the backward PJs and spoons under the pillow. I'm glad it worked.

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  8. Love it! We always do a fog dance if we think there's a chance!

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  9. I honestly have never heard of a fog delay. - I will have to try the spoons and backward PJ's next winter for a snow day.

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  10. We had one on Friday. It was wonderful! I'd take another!!

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  11. Loved your story!! I have definitely missed our snow days this winter!

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  12. Oh so funny, it is nice to hear of such childhood giddiness in a fifteen year old. Delays are wonderful, just a little extra time to sip your tea/coffee and sit before the day begins.

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  13. That's very funny! I've heard of doing a snow dance, but not this routine for a day off. And a fog day???? That's interesting.

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  14. We don't have fog days in Colorado, and it's supposed to be in the sixties all week, but I'm filing this idea, just in case!

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  15. This story cracks me up. I never realized there could be such a thing as "fog delay" and I've never heard of that pj's and spoon magic. I wonder if I did that here - what sort of response would I get? Delay because it's raining cats and dogs - for real?

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