Misfortune

Jack's Jem:

This story requires a small amount of background information to fully appreciate the humor behind this Jem.  So during the Christmas holidays our travel plans to visit family were cancelled twice due to somebody or another being too sick to travel.  That left some of the kids Christmas gifts from the grandparents at their aunt's in Seattle. Well a plan was hatched for us to meet up with the kid's Aunt half way between Seattle and here this morning. Unlike the plans during Christmas no one is sick, but now there is heavy snow and high winds in the mountain pass which makes it unsafe for the "Aunt" to travel.  So goes by the way side another opportunity to get the Christmas gifts and more importantly visit with some family.

So you ask  where is the Jem in all of this, wait for it: 

When we told the kiddos this morning that we were not going to meet up with their aunt.  Jack responded without the slightest hint that he was upset "What, have we been eating misfortune cookies, all this time?"  

His attitude made to whole thing a lot easier to deal with.