I remember when a couple of my kids were with me when another mom was talking about how she would talk her kids into staying home from school when they felt the slightest bit queasy because she loved having them home from school and having one-on-one time with them. They gave me these scathing looks like "you don't love ME like she loves HER kids." I was always "you're not sick enough to stay home from school." But I did feel bad for them, growing up in Houston, that they didn't ever have the snow days that I remembered from my childhood in Minnesota. So I did sign them out for a pretend snow day once. Yes, note writing is a lot of power -- use the force wisely!