Birthday celebrations and snow days

Rick Holtz is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read his column each week in the newspaper and on the website.
Rick Holtz is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read his column each week in the newspaper and on the website.

Today is my 41st birthday.

My kids are more excited about it than I am. For me, it is just another Wednesday. I go to work and I spend most of my day in the office working on newspaper stuff.

But to my kids a birthday means cake and ice cream. It means birthday dinners and presents.

This year is weird. I turn 41, but in my mind my mom is still 40. Obviously she is not, for whatever reason when I pict…