The joke's on you.

We've had our fair share of snow days and delayed openings this Winter.  The kids don't lack those bonus days when they wake up and find out "Guess what? There's no school today!"  You may have even heard their squeals of delight all the way to your house.

Because these snow days have become all too common place, we've now taken to playing pranks on each other.  It's gotten pretty funny when we all had a hand in it and didn't realize the other was doing the same thing.

Here's a classic example of what I am referring to:

Recently, we found out the night before there would be a 2 hour delay the next morning.  Both kids were still awake and we were approaching their bedtime.  We intentionally did not tell Sam so she would go to bed at her normal time. We did tell Ian so he wouldn't set his alarm and could sleep in.  By 5:15am the next morning, the county reassessed the roads and the announcement was made that there would be no school. 

The next morning:
I see Ian as soon as he wakes-up and tell him, "Guess what, the county changed their mind and you have a full day of school today."

Ian:  What?

Me:  Yep, you have school today.

Sam then wakes-up (remember, she has no idea there was even a delay happening).

Ian to Sam:  We have no school today (trying to be funny).

Sam:  Yay!!!!

Ian looks at me and smiles like I am in on his joke.

It was the funniest conversation as we were all trying to have a little fun with each other.  It took a few minutes to convince the kids that there was in fact no school.