Philly prayers

In YM/YW the other day, one of the young men was wrangled into saying the prayer. It went a little something like this:

"Yo, check this out. Dear God...."

McDonalds

So Brian and I went to a picnic the other day, and decided to go thru the drive-thru of McDonalds to pick up some salads on the way. Here is how it went:

Drive-thru lady: "What can I get you?"

Brian: "We just need a minute."

lady (with no pause): "What do you want?"

Mind you her accent is so thick, we can't understand most of what she is saying... plus, she is mumbling.

Brian: "Um, ok, what is on the Southwest Chicken Salad?"

lady: "Uh, vegetables...."

Really?!? Vegetables in a salad?

Brian: "What else, and what kind of vegetables?"

lady: "corn and... {mumble, mumble, mumble,} and, uh, tomatoes."

Brian: "Ok, sure we'll take one of those."

Winter Storm

Well, Friday we got hit with a BIG winter storm here in eastern PA. All morning the news was having their special winter storm edition. All of the school closings flashed across the bottom of the screen (and by "all of the school closings" I mean ALL of the schools were closed!) The newscasters were advising everyone to stay in, and off the roads due to the horrible conditions out there. The woman reporter stood in all of her winter gear with some flakes falling on her head every once in awhile, and rubbed her foot into the ground to show us all of the snow we'd received. "As you can see, we've received about TWO inches here..." TWO INCHES! You'd think this was the storm of the century! So I went shopping all day :)

I took Xander into the backyard to go sledding. I put on his snowpants (only used once before in ut), snowboots (also only used once before in ut), winter coat, hat, and mittens, and strapped him into his toddler sled that his Aunt Jane got him for Christmas. It was great! I pulled him behind me all the way to the top of the little hill in our backyard, then pushed him down the hill. He shouted, "WEEEEEEE!" all the way down the hill. Then I'd run down the hill and pull him back up and do it again. I didn't even have to get him out of the sled and carry him up the hill. Eventually he started saying "Mark, set, go!", then doing a little scoot to get himself going really fast.

PS-Even our RS activity on Saturday morning was cancelled due to inclement weather. It stopped snowing around 9am Friday morning.....