Yesterday's snow storm certainly was a game changer! It was for sure a reminder that no matter how much we prepare and expect things to go our way. There are things that are totally out of our control.
I had yesterday planned out from the moment the kids left for school.....
We would spend the morning bakeing cookies and playing games. The little ones would eat lunch and take naps while I cleaned up our baking adventures.
When the big kids got off the school bus we would snuggle and watch Christmas movies until the first of our friends arrived. We would the paint ornaments, eat cookies, drink cocoa, and await Santa's arrival all the while listening to Christmas music.....
Well that's not at all how the day went.
It started with my oldest yelling at me because he had a stomach ache and my husband didn't believe him. I went through the whole if your sick your in your room all day routine. He agreed, I was skeptical, but his brother had been ill the day before so I caved and sent him back to bed.
I got the others off to school after an argument about riding the bus home from school, typically I pick them up, but on half days they ride the bus so I don't have to wake any daycare children, yesterday was a half day and one child was begging to be picked up reguardless.
It was finally quiet, just me and the daycare, & the baking began. Soon after the first of the cookies went into the oven the snow started to fall, and fall, and fall.
By noon time the texts canceling for the evening's festivities started to come. When all was said and done we had 2 friends and no Santa.
In the midst of the chaos I lost my phone, I have no idea who ate how many cookies, my house got messy, gifts got handed out (luckily Santa was able to get them to a mail man who was kind enough to bring them to our door), I don't think I heard a single Christmas song, the kids watched part of a Christmas movie (I have no idea which one as I was hunting for my phone at the time), dinner was late, snow was everywhere. ....
All in all it truly was agreat day!
We got to spend time with a few friends we've never gotten the chance to hang out with in a small scale setting, we had some very yummy food, we were safe and warm dispite the storm outside, & everyone (daycare & friends) made it home safe and sound.
It truly was a blessed day!
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