Last year our sled's rode their last hill.
Justin has been eyeballing them at Wal-Mart for a good six weeks or so. And this week the snow finally came. His joy & excitement was unmeasurable.....until we went to buy one.
A couple days ago, Layne and I were headed out to run some errands, and Judd REALLY wanted to go hoping we'd stop at Wal-Mart so he could talk his dad into buying a sled.
We made our stops and then trying not to have to go into Wal-Mart (it was the day after Christmas) we stopped at Tractor Supply Store and Big Lots. They had NO sleds. Justin was getting real nervous. At this point he had stopped talking and his head was sunk down into his coat. Kind of like a turtle. We wanted to call it quits, but Judd was so pathetic it pulled at our heartstrings. So Layne pulled in and the two of them went into Wal-Mart. When they came back out they didn't have a sled.
Justin had tears in his eyes, but he was still not making any sound. I was shocked because last time we took inventory of the sleds there were piles of them. I asked what happened and Justin said, " They are $40.00. We can't buy one." All the cheap ones were gone.
Okay, I'm sorry he was sad, but I'm totally with Layne on this one. I am NOT paying $40.00 for a sled. He was down & out, but when we got home I showed him how we could make some pretty good sleds out of the big cardboard boxes we have from our move. He was happy with the idea. Good. Sad little boy all fixed.
The next day Layne and the boys were at Lowes. When they came home Mitch & Justin both had sleds in hand and TOTALLY out of their minds excited. I guess what happened was this lady in line asked Justin if he had been out sledding. He said, "No, they cost $40.00 at Wal-Mart." So she said, "You better run over to Dollar General and check there." Layne was wonering why that never occurred to us. So off they went.
Why don't I ever think of Dollar General? We have three of them in our town. When ever I go in there I ask myself why I don't go in more often. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
So they got their $5.00 and $8.00 sleds. They put on all their snow clothes and went outside for a great day of sledding, only to discover this house doesn't have any hills like our old one. Ha! I don't know why that made me laugh, but it sure did. All of our neighbors around us have hills. Some of them have VERY big hills. We have no hills. I knew I forgot to do somehing, and now I know that something was to make friends with the neighbors that had hills. Oh well. When it isn't 14° outside we'll go over to the church. There are some good hills there.
