yeah, the girls still have christmas trees in their rooms

This morning as my husband headed off to work, he asked what my plans were for the day.

"We are going to work on organizing some things around the house," I answered proudly, running through a mental list of all the things I hoped to get done.

Take down the Christmas trees in the girl's rooms... clean up the playroom for Abby's upcoming birthday party... have Abby write thank you notes for presents already received... take pictures of toys and baby gear that I want to post for sale on craigs list... it was going to be a productive day.

An hour later...

Five hours later...

And the chores? They will get done... eventually.

oh, the excitement

Three straight days of snow. Three days until Christmas. You could say my kids are just a bit excited these days.

Tomorrow the cooking and the cleaning begins.

Wednesday will feature Christmas Mass and some quiet time as a family.

Thursday will be a blur of Santa, presents, family, food, more presents and more family.

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to all!

the magic of the first snow

The first snow of the season. A magical, magical morning.

Here we have Claire exploring the white stuff in an array of quickly assembled hand-me-down snow gear.

Where is Abby? Um, well, she just happens to be in her room riping off her snow suit and screaming her head off due to technical difficulties with her socks and the fact that she had to wear rain boots because, terrible mother that I am, I have not bought new snow boots yet.

Ah, the joy.

And here we have Daddy and his girls proudly displaying our very first snowman of the year.