This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Ironic Snow Day
Feb
10
2010
Our church has an AWANA program, which is a weekly program for children and it involves games and Bible teaching and stuff. Every so often, we will have a special night instead of the usual program. These are planned at the beginning of the school year – hayride and bonfire one night in the fall, grand prix races one night in the spring, a night of caroling just before Christmas, and a sledding night in mid-winter.
Because the nature of weather is to be unpredictable, especially 5 months ahead of time, we always plan a sledding night and then a back-up sledding night in case there is no snow on the first night. Two weeks ago, when we were supposed to have our sledding night, there wasn’t really any snow. So we had a regular AWANA program and told the kids the sledding night would be this day.
And then, last week after he reminded the kids that the next week would be sledding, the guy in charge gave the closing prayer. Yes, he prayed that we would have lots of snow for sledding.
And lo, the snow fell in great abundance.
We got plenty of snow, and it all came the day before and day of the sledding trip. Perfect. But there is a rule that we follow – if school is closed there is no AWANA that night. It’s easy for the kids to remember, it’s easy for the parents to remember, and it makes sense that if roads are too bad for getting to school then they are too bad for getting to church. Keeps the kids safe.
School was canceled today. Too much snow.
So there’s no AWANA tonight. Too much snow.
Which means we can’t go sledding because there’s too much snow.
Maybe I’ll spend some quality time at home with the kids since we’re not taking them to church tonight. I think we’ll go sledding.
Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
James 5:18
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:01 pm and has been carefully placed in the Mishaps category.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Yeah I really do think.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Irony.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:53 am
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