There's snow way you can keep us down.

[navygreen]

Or snowed in, I guess.

We'd been out of milk all day, and I finally braved the roads with the boys this evening to run and get some. I'd called a few places beforehand, as I didn't want to get all the way somewhere and find them closed, their milk trapped inside behind locked doors.

So we got in the car. And we backed out of the clear driveway and onto the street, and we set off. A-aaa-annndd wwwwwww-we sttt-taaaarr-tted bu-ummmmmpp-ppping arrrr-rrround ssoommme-th-thinggg likkkke tth-thiiiss.

The icy roads were quite bumpy, in case you couldn't tell. ;-) The boys were talking to one another, and I felt a bit guilty, but I explained to them that I needed them to be very quiet - that the roads were icy, and it was dark and that made me nervous, so I needed lots of quiet so that I could concentrate on the roads.

And they didn't utter another peep, either one of them. Once we pulled into the convenience store, we all hopped out and headed in together to get the milk. I bought a gallon of regular milk, and we each picked up small containers of flavored milks as a treat (chocolate for both me and A.J. and strawberry for Jack). Then we trooped back to the car and loaded up again.

I drove a different route home so that I wouldn't have to contend with the ice-covered hill entering Lockbourne Drive. We took it very slow - never getting above 20mph - and we made it easily back home with the new route. As we pulled into the garage again and I shut off the car, A.J. wiped his brow and said, "Whew! I'm so glad we made it back home. Those bumps were really scary!"

And we all laughed about it as we came inside to eat. We talked over 'Grandma's Chicken and Vegetable Rice Bake,' and we enjoyed our milks.

I feel accomplished. :-)

Comments

[fiendfyre.livejournal.com]

haha Jack reminds me of me. I love strawberry milk and orange is in fact the best colour in the whole world! Except IM the oldest child and of course everyone knows the oldest is best :) Oh wait no, it means I got to do everything first and screw up and my brother got it easy. Meh!

And i'm glad y'all made it back safe.

[fiendfyre.livejournal.com]

P.S. I vote that you get on AIM. Because i am actually on there.

[bigbrain61.livejournal.com]

I'll second that.

Aaaaand I'll add that it's raining here. Quite heavily. I'm building an ark tonight.

[fiendfyre.livejournal.com]

OMG here too!! We should ark together!!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Now honestly, how could I forgive myself if I kept you from that and your family all drowned. I couldn't, therefore I *must* stay away from AIM.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

It is easier to get pigs to fly than to get me on AIM.

No, srsly. I'm so RARELY in the mood for AIM. It's a shame, but it's just how I am. :-/

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think strawberry milk sounds SO gross I can't even make myself try it. Jack was asking me today at lunch (as he ate a butterscotch pudding) whether they made strawberry pudding, too. I thought for a while, and then I finally told him that I didn't think so, as I couldn't remember ever seeing it before. He smiled though and said, "Well, but they make strawberry jell-o, and that's good enough for me!"

[fiendfyre.livejournal.com]

Why did you LIE to the boy!?! There is too strawberry pudding?!?!?!?! Just get him some good strawberry yogart. Dannon, it's the best in the world.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Is there really? I just can't recall ever noticing any before. It sounds nasty, too. Oh, but he LOVES strawberry yogurt - no worries there. We even have some in our fridge, but he picked "Daddy's last butterscotch pudding" for dessert instead.

[marshmelococoa.livejournal.com]

Those are the kinds of times that you'll always say, "remember when..." So fun.

Strawberry milk tastes like barium. Or at least it does after you've had barium.

I have to ask my kids to be silent A LOT. Even though it's usually ok if I talk, that's not distracting but there is something about all the kids talking at once that drives me BONKERS!! I'm not sure why it is that way. I get it from my dad I know.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Ewww. Let's hope I never have to try barium then.

[shoebox_addict]

Whoa! Treacherous road conditions! Seems like a nice day despite the weather! ^__^

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

It was a cozy day indoors for the most part. Not too shabby. :-)