Exciting!

I don't know if you heard about the horrible traffic woes of the DC area on Wednesday evening due to sudden snow right at rush hour?  Well, it was somethin' & luckily we were all home & didn't get caught up in it.  Well...let me say we all ended up home safe & sound, but Joel & Josie DID get a little "caught up" for a bit.  Josie had an eye appointment that Joel took her to & on their way home it started sleeting.  Then, according to Joel, they just started driving into a wall of snow.  When they got closer to our house they took the back way coming home by a 2 lane blacktop road, instead of taking the highway through town.  Joel said he couldn't even see the road & since it was dark and the snow was swirling, he was having a hard time not getting disoriented.  And when I asked him WHY he chose to take this back road instead of coming through town where there are more cars & lights, he said "that wouldn't have been as exciting!"

Which takes me back to another time when we had a conversation much like this one...it was March 17, 2001.  This was not only St. Patrick's day but also the day of Joel's graduate recital at U of M.  Our 900 square foot house was full with my mom, my grandma, Joel's parents & his brother plus our 2 dogs & 2 cats--we were cooking in the kitchen & cleaning for his reception following the recital.   Joel had driven up the road to the grocery store to pick up the cake I ordered for him that read "Congratulations Joel" in the icing.  We had some late season snow there in Michigan that spring & only the week before Joel had traded in his faithful ol' blue Ford Ranger for a shiny new red one.  We hadn't even made a payment on the truck yet when he decided it would be "more exciting" to take the outer, snow covered road home with his cake, than to drive down the clear highway.  What a neat thing to get a phone call from him to tell me he was on the outer road and the truck was upside down in the ditch....just hours before his recital was to begin.  He was fine--the truck was totalled.  And the cake...well, I only wish we had a picture of the icing reading "Congratulations Joel" that was stuck to the cake box top from when it flipped upside down in the truck with him. 

SO, luckily Joel made it home Wednesday with no incident....he had much more precious cargo than cake this time as he was driving with my Josie Mae in tow.  And since that same day Joel had to trade our old van in for a new-to-us commuter car, I'm REALLY hoping we get to make at least 1 payment on it before he decides to do anything too exciting in it!