When school is cancelled, what do you do with your kids?

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School is cancelled here today because of icy weather. Here in the southen US, we don't handle this type of thing too well. :) My son is ecstatic, of course. I'm fortunate because he is old enough to stay by himself. If he weren't, my husband is not employed and my mother-in-law lives next door, so I wouldn't have problems having someone watch him while I go to work. Not everyone is this fortunate. Do you have to take off work to stay with your kids when school is cancelled, or do you have innovative alternate arrangements?