First Snow!

Yesterday we had our first snow of the year.... and I can't wait for it all to melt. lol I was all warm in bed when kids started pouncing on me saying they had a 2 hour delay. Great... now go back to bed! Then 20 minutes later they're running through the house saying NO SCHOOL! Just lovely...there goes my day! ( grumble grumble). They've awoken Drew by this point and he's now standing at the front door saying "WOOHOO it's nowing out". Now he probably doesn't even remember snow but the girls hve got him all riled up anyways. I tell them I'll make them all a nice hot breakfast and they quickly announce to me that they all want to go play in the snow.... NOW! WHAT???? It's 8am! They're running around finding snow pants, boots, etc. They have dumped 2 boxes of crap all over the kitchen looking for stuff. Thank... guess who gets to clean that up later!! =P Drew can't even move by the time I get him all bundled so I realize I'm going to have to go out too.... groan! I am a Cali girl by heart ( even though I've never lived there lol) and I can't stand the cold... let alone the cold with blowing freezing snow! I dust off my boots and throw on a coat, hat and gloves and out I go with all of them. I pull out the sleds and the girls quickly wake up the rest of the neighborhood for them to come out and play too. I haul Drew up and down the street and up and down a few hills until he announces to me it's cold. No shit kiddo but you're the one that begged to come out here. By this time I've lost my gloves to Brooke because her's are now wet... duh the snow is wet! And I can see that I'm going to lose my hat to Drew because his keeps falling off. Hannah's starting to complain that her boots are too small and is hinting that maybe she should wear mine. Hell no.... It's not my fault you grew!

We stay outside for a few more minutes and Drew is done... thank god! I bring him back in and begin the 1/2 hour process of taking off all the layers and thawing out.

The girls continue to play with all the neighbor kids for the next hour or so and then I hear the door open.... and not only do my 2 girls come in.... they've invited half the neighborhood in for hot chocolate. Just lovely! So I lay out even more towels by the front door to lay all their sopping wet stuff on. They all start throwing boots. gloves, hats etc. in a million different directions and run downstairs to go play. I finally get that mess all cleaned up only to turn around and hear Hannah say that everyone would like to stay for lunch. Alright then. I now have 9 or 10 kids running through here ( it doesn't really matter once you get past 5 if you count or not because you're beyond mass chaos by that point!) I tell them that they can all stay for lunch but afterwards they have to go home because I have to get a few things done( ie: drink a bottle of vodka!).

Some people love to hear the words Snow Day.... they think of relaxing by the fire, sipping hot cocoa and reading a good book. I think I would much rather hear the word Tornado.... atleast then I could blame the huge mess on something else. =P