Something is going to happen

When my boys were small we had a favorite winter book called "Something is Going to Happen."  As the family wakes up on a cold winter day, each of them senses that "something is going to happen."  A young child gets dressed in silence, the baby lies still, listening from his crib, the mother and father look at one another knowingly, the dog sniffs the air.  One by one, the family members gather in hushed early morning stillness, and then open the door to gaze out upon the first snow of...