These brothers looked at one another with wide grins and eyes as big as saucers while we embraced jumping up and down yelling out with excitement. School had been canceled for the day after having snowed all night long and into the morning which left many area roads impassable. There was even snow piled up along the outside edges of the porch with icicles hanging from the eaves. Heavy flakes of frozen white crystals were falling from the sky and turned the great outdoors into a wintry wonderland. “Well, I’ll let you have a look for yourselves,” commented Mom as she opened up the door to the back porch so we could stand in front of the frosty screen door. “Is it a holiday that we don’t know about?” asked the freckle-faced lad with a quizzical look on his face with hands on hips. You would be in school right now,” declared the mother of three laughing slightly at the comical routine unfolding before her eyes. “Shouldn’t we be at school right now?” I questioned with a scrunched up face while pressing my fingernails into the top of the upholstered chair in front of me. This dynamic duo found the tall slender woman sitting at the kitchen table singing a church hymn as she rolled out cookie dough with flour scattered about.
“We should’ve been up for school a long time ago so we need to have an investigation.”Īfter creeping from the bedroom to spy our baby sister happily occupied in her playpen, we headed toward the sound of Mom’s voice at the opposite end of the house. The freckle-faced lad climbed out of bed and unwrapped me like a gift on Christmas. Wrapped tightly under the warm blanket like a caterpillar in a cocoon, I opened up my eyelids and eyeballed my sibling. “Mark,” the eldest whispered loudly as he propped himself up looking intently at this soundly sleeping kindergartner. The 6-year-old was waiting for our mother to come bursting through the door with a song in her heart to jump start the school day but when that didn’t come to fruition, the little whippersnapper decided to wake me from my slumber. However, the long holiday weekend had come to an end and it was back to the well-oiled machine of daily life. Although it was a full week since the Thanksgiving Day feast at Grandma and Pappy Price’s house, it seemed like yesterday that my big brother John and I were having the time of our lives with all the cousins.
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