Let It Snow

Snow is in the forecast. The phrase, “Let It Snow,” always reminds me of the song ofcourse, but only after thinking of the David Sedaris dark-but-funny story of the same title from Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denin.

In the story, David’s mom locks the kids out of the house so that they will go play in the snow and give her some peace.  The children try to plot their way back into the house. David decides that if one of the kids were to pretend to get hit by a car, that might do the trick. He tries to get his sister Amy {Sedaris} to do it. 

“Amy in turn, pushed it off to Tiffany, who was the youngest and had no concept of death. ‘It’s like sleeping,’ we told her. ‘Only you get a canopy bed.’
Poor Tiffany. She’d do anything in return for a little affection. All you had to do was call her ‘Tiff’ and whatever you wanted was yours: her allowance, her dinner, the contents of her Easter Basket. Her eagerness to please was absolute and naked. When we asked her to lie in the middle of the street, her only question was ‘where?’”

So funny. No worries. It all ends well.
I love his stories.

My sisters never asked me to get in the street, but I’d still do about anything for them and I miss them most at this time of year, when we would steam tape off of presents under the tree and sleep in the same bed because we were terrified of Santa’s breaking and entering. The coffee commercial where Peter comes home and surprises the family on Christmas Eve still makes me cry. Watching it, I’m my daughter’s age all over again, just after my oldest sister left for college.