and noise.....and laundry.....and cold....and hot cocoa....and neighborhood kids in and out
..slamming doors and fireplace roaring......and sledding
and snowmen
and snow bibs on and off and on and off and on and off......and cookies....and gloves......and mind you this was before noon....but the kids have grown. Our snow days are so different....
This year the kids were in bed until 11:00. I was in bed until 10:00....shameful and wonderful!
A nice cup of coffee and board games.....
Brunch around noon.....
Followed by
Bubble baths and good books.....
A Friends marathon.....
A surprise drop in from the Winn kids....even though we were still in our PJ's and had no makeup on and had billows of dog fur tumbling around we were happy for the sighting! It was almost 4:00 so we should have been dressed.....we just decided not to today......
Then the younger kids did finally venture out for a bit, disappointed that not much snow was left they decided to hike over to their grandma's to see their cousin for a bit....
The rest of us played a pretty intense round of Spades....
A cake was baked.....and dinner was made, not be me.....and dishes cleared...also not by me...
Laundry was done....that was by me.....
Now we've all scattered around the house and Lydia and Audrey are playing an online trivia game, and Sophia is texting her friends, and Randy and Andrew are watching TV and talking, and Jack is playing Madden....and I'm blogging and thinking how much life has changed....and how in some ways its so much simpler....like meals...and snow days....... and in other ways it is so much more difficult....like relationships and feelings and technology.
The twins are about to turn 12. They are begging for Instagram and iPhones and I'm wishing they still wanted Barbies and Nerf Guns....
Slow down time.....please slow down.
