Friday, February 22, 2008

Ice

When I was young, this latest storm would have been a whiz-bang of a snowstorm; the kind where everyone (and I mean everyone) would get out their sled or toboggan and head for the local sledding hill, and spend the day going down at lightning speed, back up at a steady plod, and drinking lots of hot chocolate. You knew you weren't going to be in school for a few days, perhaps a week. Slumber parties, popcorn, and rounds of Dark Tower ensued. It was a holiday of epic proportions.

But today, we have a sheet of ice, drizzle, and yuck. The boys are playing Starfall, dinosaurs are on the TV, and the fire won't catch. I am still sick as the proverbial dog. I am thinking about pulling out the popcorn just to cheer everybody up. Maybe I can find some hot chocolate. We can at least have the warm snuggly part of the snowday, right?

5 comments:

Niksmom said...

So sorry you are still unwell! Hope you found some cocoa; that always makes me feel better! ;-) Well, emotionally anyway...

Stimey said...

We had a similar day. I'm sick. All of my kids were home. The highlight of my day was watching my kids' delight at my scraping the ice off my car windshield. They were really impressed by it. Weird.

We did have popcorn, but we bought it at Target. Hope you feel better!

Casdok said...

A warm snuggly snowday sounds lovely!

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