Snow Day:
Hailie looked out her bedroom window for the third time in the past hour and sighed. Hours earlier she had awoke, jumped out of bed, ran to the window and done the same thing. The night before, as she was getting ready for bed her Mom had told her school was canceled due to the big winter storm in the area. Well if today was a snow day, where was all the snow! She kept looking out the window hoping that a beautiful blanket of white would be covering the lawn, but instead all she could see was the scraggly dead winter grass. Not one measly snow flake was falling from the sky.
"Mom, I'm booooored!" She whined, "Where's all the snow?"
"Why are you asking me? I'm not Jack Frost" replied her mother, clearly exasperated and tired of being cooped up in the house with a seven year old. "And if you're bored, there's plenty of cleaning that needs to be done. You can start by folding this laundry"
She dumped a large basket of clothes on Hailie's bed. To Hailie it seemed to tower over her.
"No Fair!" Hailie grumbled, "besides, Jack Frost isn't even real!"
"Keep talking like that, and he'll never make it snow for you" her Mom replied as she left the room.
Hailie's eyes widened at the thought of no snow ever as she started working on the seemingly endless pile of t-shirts and jeans. "Jack Frost" she thought to herself "I don't think you're really real, but if you are real, please please please PLEASE make it snow today. Snow is so much fun and I wanna make snow angels, and build a snow fort, and have a snowball fight. If you make it snow today, I'll believe in you forever, I promise." She finished the clothes and started pairing up socks. Before she knew it half an hour had passed. She looked over at the window and shrieked.
"IT'S SNOWING!"
The largest flakes she had ever seen were falling down; the yard was already covered in at least an inch of pure white. She quickly pulled on her coat, hat, and mittens and ran for the stairs but then stopped and quickly ran back to the window.
"Thanks Jack!" She shouted to the wind before running outside to play.