A Snowy Day: A Chronicle of a day in the life of the Russell Children

Waking up to more snow then I think the Russell Children have ever seen was quite a magical thing. Of course the first question of the morning was "when can we go play in it?" Now that's a tricky question to answer because children in general are not wired to wait more than a few minutes for anything and they had no idea of the task at hand. Mommy had to pull out and find all of their snow gear from last year, which would be an easy feat for someone who is organized and has put everything in it's place and had a "snow bin" that can be easily located and divvied out. In the Russell abode that is certainly not the case! Just trying to remember where all the winter boots were lurking was enough to make you break a sweat just in contemplation. Boot locating proved to be only semi-difficult, it mas the mitten finding that proved to be the most challenging this morning,for sure. Although their grandma makes them new mittens every year I put them in such a good spot that I couldn't find any of them...so mission impossible was officially on. In our house if you can't find something you improvise. Well the two oldest are sporting my crocheted mittens and are looking very stylish, the third of the bunch is actually wearing his own mittens that I found accidentally before they were ready to charge out into the snow, and the littlest man has the good old makeshift ones. His mittens consist of the old snap on feet of a snow suit that the baby wore when he was about 18 months old... I put each of the feet covers on his hands which are so hysterical because they are these puffy little balls and make him look like he has paws!!! HaHaHa...I tied each of them on his little hands and he was ready to go. Now half of them are crying, all bundled up and ready to out into the wonderland of white. While it's mommy's job to get the kids & daddy, to go out in the snow...it's his job to take them sledding. Laughing out loud I watched them try to plow down our front stairs and down the driveway, of course within moments the littlest guy had fallen face first into the snow!!! There will be many more stories when they trample back in from their sledding excursion, and more laughs to share...and mommy will have the hot chocolate & whipped cream ready for her little monkeys to warm up their bellies:)