The Ice Cream Truck

Yesterday the kids slept until 9am!!! No kidding. They were so exhausted by the week we had with cousins and camps that they finally caved and slept late. We decided to have a quiet day doing stuff around the house. The kids were banned from TV and called outside to help with yard and garage work. Then........the air began to fill with the music of the Ice Cream Truck. Remember that music? And around here you can hear it from miles away because there are fewer houses and the wind blows the tune with it. You can't tell where the truck is - the kids stand outside waiting for a glimpse of the truck - then they see it way up the road in another neighborhood - will it come to us? - how long will it torture them as it mills through streets that aren't theirs? They stand on the edge with money jars and jumping to make sure maybe they could be seen. This time a green truck with a kindly couple went so far as to drive up the road a mile to make sure the driver knew there were 4 kids waiting in anticipation of the drivers arrival...........