It's 9:10am and...

I've already uttered under my breath "Goddammit, it's not worth it!" in regards to bundling up 4 children (which took 25 minutes...had to find snowpants that fit, missing a boot, someone's strap isn't tight enough, Julia's jacket went missing...) to play out in the beautiful snow (which made me giddy when I woke up)...only to have one come back in with wet gloves (doesn't want mittens that they can't control though), another crying because his chin is cold (here, have a scarf!)....and it's been 2 full minutes now with them all outside. They are cute FOR SURE. Absolutely. Now I'm horrified thinking about the entry way. It's THISBIG and there's NO ROOM for wet nasty snowpants, jackets, boots, mittens. So I'll make some hot cocoa and tea for them when they come in- this idea is compliments of their father (who is working today-BOOOO!), who happened to call in the middle of a mini meltdown. : )

And when I woke up, for the record, I was cheering, and I came RUNNING out to the kids, far more excited about the snow than they were- cept they wanna play in it and I don't. CJ just threw a snowball at me! Anyway- it's ME! I love the first snow! It's awesome! In fact, I love the snow right up til the middle of January- I think the longest I've lasted is Feb. 9:19, first child all the way in the house, but he's back out, he needed his hood put back on. Anyway- ESPECIALLY now, and the buildup til Christmas, I LOVE. I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I can't even express the warm fuzzy feeling I have. I just have to get over the fact that the kids have a 3 x 3 space to come in and get out of all their nasty wet clothes. All 4 of them. 6 of them. HAHA. I need to resign myself to the fact that it's going to be a horrid mess and there's no room to store anything. And that we went all spring, summer and fall without making that better.
My vision is a breakfast nook that seats at least 8, then we can get rid of the big table, and I can open up the entry way so they can come in and all have room to take their stuff off.
Okay- I'm going to be okay. Time to warm up some drinks and store all these extra snowpants. I have Christmas music on. :) Shut up, it's getting me through. :)