As I mentioned a few posts ago, we have had quite a bit of snow. This snow has closed the public schools for four of the last five days. As a result, a few days ago a friend asked if we wanted to meet them for lunch at Burger King, which has an indoor play place. We were all a little stir crazy and quickly jumped at the chance to meet some school aged friends. I told her we would try, but I wasn't exactly sure how our van would do getting out of our cul de sac.
As I was loading the kids up, I told them all to put their coats in the car. I told them they didn't have to wear them (a hassle with seat belts and I didn't want them lying all over the floor at Burger King), but I wanted them in the car just in case we had car trouble and had to get out in the cold and snow. They complied.
As we were backing out I asked Jack to pray for our safety. I really didn't know if we would be successful getting out because of how we had seen so many neighbours get stuck in the snow. Jack was happy to pray. His prayer went like this:
Dear Lord, Please help Mommy be a good driver (I fear he may have meant like Keith see early post #littleboyswatching) and please get us there safely so we don't have to walk to Burger King. Amen.
I almost laughed out loud. There is no way we were walking to Burger King. We wanted to go, but not that bad! Burger King is about 2 miles away and in the snow it would have taken us at least 2 hours to walk. In a seven year old's mind - we were getting to Burger King even if we had to walk.
Praise God we were able to make it up the hill... and didn't have to 'walk' to Burger King! :)
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Cabin fever can be a serious problem when snow is on the ground. Thankfully God protects mothers who are willing to take unbelievable risks to escape the four walls for the comfort of adult company.
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