The snow is falling and the Amish buggy was heading home.

My husband and I were on our way home the other day.

When we left the house it was fifty-five degrees and the sun was shining brightly. When we got out of the hospital, it had become quite cold and windy and it was snowing. The person who tended the parking lot told us that it had started snowing about an hour earlier. We had about three inches of snow on the road and I was glad we had chosen to park in the indoor parking lot,. We live in Amish country so it isn’t unusual to see several Amish buggies on the way home. We saw an Amish buggy that had my heart strings being pulled so tightly that I thought I was going to cry. There was what appeared to be a young mother and her three small children, all crowded into the buggy. They didn’t have anything to protect them from the snow flying into the front of the buggy. The children were snuggled underneath some blankets and she had a scarf around her face and neck. I wondered if they had any kind of heating in those buggies. I thought about the heating in our car and how cold it was before the heater began to do any good. Those young children looked extremely cold and I would have loved to stop and offer them a ride so they could enjoy the heating of our car. They were such proud and strong people that I am sure they would have declined. She even waved and said thank you when we slowed down to go by them.

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