SNOW DAY!!!!

    Snow days are an amazing things to kids.  At night the white stuff starts falling from the sky and they go to bed expectant and hopeful that the school district will know how dangerous this stuff is and realize the importance of a calling off school in the morning.  They toss and turn torn between hoping there is no school in the morning and the real possibility there will be.  It's hard to fall asleep.
     The next morning as quietly as possible the parent tip toes into the room and gently caresses the child's face and whisperers, "Snow Day there's no school."  Kisses the child on the forehead and tip toes out of the room.  Two seconds later the kids eyes pop open as the realization of what the parent has just said reaches their barely conscious brain.

                                                           Snow Day!!

     They throw off the sheets and bound out of bed giggling.  They run around the house jumping on every piece of furniture, (it's a rule), throw their hands into the air, they shout (another rule) and and squeal the notes only the dog can hear.(That's a law).  Then they bump mom off the computer where she is writing her blog to get on face book to make sure all their friends know it's a snow day.  (The ones they haven't already texted or gotten texts from).  They begin to make plans.  To get together, to venture out in the white stuff that the school district has already deemed to dangerous to venture out in.   They plan to go sledding at the... school because it has the best hill for sledding. (Ironically)  They plan to go to the mall after and check out the guys or girls who also have snow days.  They are looking in the cabinet to see if they have the proper amount of Swiss Miss Cocoa for when they return from their snowy adventures.  

   Pleased with how their day is shaping up they graciously allow their mother to have the computer back.  Nonchalantly adding.  "So what are you doing today Mom?"  Mom will turn to them giving them her full attention and they can't help but launch into a narrative of how they see their day unwinding. "Oh  and can you take me?"  Sneakily added at the end.  Along with a few Please, please please.  I will do anything. added for good measure.  And THAT'S when they see it. The smile that passes over Mom's face that shows they have made a horrible tactical blunder.  She stands gives them a hug and tells them, 'Sure I will take you but first I need you to do something for me.'  Clean your room, feed the dog, wash the cat, so many things zip through there head that they are blindsided when she hands them a shovel.

"Dig out first."

"D'OH!"