December 19, 2004
Hello, stranger! How are you?

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is over, so I can sit down and tell a story or two.

Shall I tell you about a little girl who had a wish list for her birthday? She had some wish list items, and I could manage to make most of them happen. One of the wishes I had no control over, however: she wanted snow on her birthday. It's been an unseasonably warm winter, so I tried to prepare her. "You know, it's been so warm that it probably won't snow." But she wished it when she blew out her candles at her party two days before, and she prayed for it several nights at bedtime.

And what do you think happened on her birthday?

Snow.

We couldn't believe it! Enough snow to say it snowed came down, rather than a light dusting, and we all celebrated that her wishes and hopes and dreams came true!

I just hope no one slipped off the road and was injured because of my little girl's birthday snow.