stevenpiziks | Can We Haz Spring Pleez?

Yesterday afternoon the boys were feeling restless. Sasha begged to go to an arcade or something. There was a winter storm warning up, though, and I didn't like the idea. I finally checked the web site of a local news station, and their forecast said the bad stuff wasn't supposed to start until much later in the evening, and it was only 3:00. Okay, then--we could go.

The boys were very excited. We drove down the highway to a pizza-and-arcade place and I bought tokens for distribution. Several of the games distribute tickets to cash in for prizes, and Aran played one game where you hit a button to make a light stop at a random number. That was the number of tickets you got. If you hit one of two numbers with BONUS next to them, you got to go again. Aran kept hitting the BONUS numbers over and over. He got almost 100 tickets from that one. But then at the end when it came time to cash in for prizes, Aran said, "I don't want a prize." Neither did Sasha or Maksim. I didn't mind--the boys have more than enough little toys at home. So we left the tickets for someone else.

Meanwhile, outside, it started to snow fast and furious and way earlier than the stupid weather people on the web site said it would. At 4:30, I told the boys we had to leave NOW. They were slow. Sasha wandered away. Aran got something on his hands and needed to wash it off. Mackie begged for ice cream. I got snappish and ordered them out. I was mad at myself for doing this. I should have stayed home and told Sasha he'd just have to deal.

The car was already getting buried and I had to remove a lot of snow. The roads were already slippery and traffic was slow. Got on the highway and we crawled toward home. It was difficult driving. Lots of traffic and lots of snow. We passed four accidents--one on our side and three on the other side. One of them was a rollover.

"Do you see why I didn't want to do this?" I told Sasha, who looked abashed.

We got home safely, with no close calls, thank heavens. I made pizza for supper.

It continued to snow all evening. You could hear it whispering down through the bare branches outside.

Can we haz spring now?