The Indoor-snowman

           The kids wanted to go out and play in the snow but I had to tell them no.  It was a blizzard out there. The wind-chill must have been around zero. “We want to make a snowman!” Amy pleaded. 

         “This kind of dry powdery snow doesn’t pack,” I told her.

         Dawn whined,  “There’s nothing to do!”

         Looking at the pile of laundry I thought, I wish.

As the girls stood looking out the window, I suggested games and they just shrugged.  Amy repeated her wish to make a snowman.

         It was time for a brilliant idea.  I said, “Tell you what. Let’s make an indoor-snowman.”

         They looked at each other the way kids do when they think their mom has just said something dumb.  I got out a box of cake mix and with the girls’ help baked two round layers.  I placed them side by side on a cookie sheet and told them, “This one is his head and this one is his body.”  The girls applied white icing and shredded coconut. 

         They weren’t convinced but it was something to do.  “He needs eyes and buttons,” Amy said. 

         There was Christmas hard candy in the bowl so they used some of that for the eyes and buttons.  “He still doesn’t have a hat and he needs a scarf,” Dawn said.  We mixed some more icing and colored it red.  That made a pretty good scarf and hat.  A little of the red icing made a smiling mouth for him.  Amy laughed.  “Now he needs a nose.”

         Dawn went to the fridge and brought out a carrot stick.  She put it in the middle of the snowman’s face. 

         Dawn said, “You know what’s good about an indoor-snowman?  We can eat him later!”
         
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