It's been almost two years since we pulled into the driveway of our new home in Holly Springs, leaving Florida behind.

I've learned a lot and I am really starting to enjoy many aspects of living in North Carolina. I like year-round schools, enjoy the weather, and appreciate the fact that we can actually take in-state vacations.

But I was totally unprepared to hear that my daughter has to go to school tomorrow, on a SATURDAY.

I know, I know....this is the way it is here but I was completley unaware of that and found myself calling many of my relatives in Detroit who I knew would be equally shocked.

My grandmother couldn't help but laugh as she looked outside at the 10-inches of snow and reminded me how I used to walk to school in snow for months on end.

In Michigan, snow days were worked into the schedule and we rearely had to make them up. If we did, they were just tacked on to the end of the year. But I do understand why that can't happen here.

But I'm still pretty shocked.

Any non-natives have a similar experience?  Tell me about it.