I did say that, didn't I?

You know how karma can come back and trick you? When you say something that you know will work to your advantage, because it just will and you don't question it. At all. But then somehow the impossible actually happens and you are so screwed.

That happened to me. Let me tell you about it.

Last night, I went to visit my little friend, Yvie and asked Jeff to come with me because really, he had no other choice. G had taken Joey and Chris to their soccer skills session and while Tommy was home, I wasn't about to let him supervise Jeff, since I can barely trust him to supervise himself. So, Jeff needed to come with me, only he was reluctant to because he was in the middle of playing with his Cars ensemble. You know, Ramone and Dinoco and Rust-Eze and the crew. In case you didn't know it already, Jeff is their biggest fan.

I suggested that he bring his racing friends along to play with at Yvie's, but he was certain that Yvie's baby sister with certainly steal them, so that wouldn't work, despite my insistence that she just thinks he's cool and so whatever toys he has are cooler and so what if she wanted to check them out? In the end, I made him a promise. "Jeff, if it doesn't snow tomorrow, I'll take you to the store to get a prize." And that was good enough for him and off we went for our visit.

I made this simple promise because there was a 100% chance that we were getting snow. So much snow, in fact, that school might even be canceled. Of course, I secretly hoped and prayed that school would not close because another snow day would inevitably push the last day of school in June out another day. So yes, I was certain there would be snow, but it wasn't going to hit our area until well after the kids were in school, and once they got there, school lunches would be delivered and well, once that step is taken you can't undo it and so the kids would be better off just finishing out the day at school. At the most, they would probably cancel afternoon Kindergarten, but it would have already started to snow and surely it would be in our best interest to just stay off the slippery roads and that is what I would tell Jeffrey when he asked to go get his prize that I promised him the night before. "I'm sorry, Jeffrey, but you'll have to wait another day because look, it's snowing out."

That was my plan. It didn't turn out that way. At all.

I was in the middle of a dream that the boys were all heading off to school when G came to wake me up at 5:45 AM to say the principal had sent an email announcing that the superintendent had canceled school for today.

Seriously? It wasn't even snowing outside. But okay, I ventured to guess it would start to fly at any minute.

It is now 10:00 AM. The snow has yet to fly. A snow day without the snow, that's what this is. And that karma I mentioned? It came back to slap me in the face in the form of a 5-year-old reminding me of the promise I made to him yesterday. "Hey mom, remember you said that if it wasn't snowing today we'd go to Toys R Us? It's not snowing, so when are we going?"

Karma and mother nature and weather people, here is what I have to say to you:

(Never mind. It's too bad to write down so I'm keeping it all in my head.)