Snow Day!

It's 6:00 am and I try to focus my eyes on the TV screen for the school closings. Yup, they're staying home today. School is closed and I'll have 5 anxious young men cooped up for the day. I roll over and try to go back to sleep for at least another hour. I can't sleep and I think I heard foot steps in the dark. One by one, they start to come out of their rooms half asleep and partially excited for a day home. I stumble out of bed and head to the kitchen to cook for an army. Starting up the coffee pot, banging pots and pans, I get a big breakfast together as fast as I can. The boys are already talking about sledding, and snowball fights. However, before I can get the grub on the table they have played the Wii, spread out Legos, chased each other with Nerf guns and I trip over toys everywhere. My oldest is texting is friends and thinking of ways to connect for a group snowmobile ride. As hours past, I am still in the kitchen baking bread, cookies, a pot of chili and cleaning up after them as they scrounge around for snacks. They eat, play and make a mess as fast as I can be two steps behind them. My day continues with more cooking and picking up wet snow clothes and keeping up with their mischief. My boys are excited and show their surge in adrenaline and testosterone by wrestling, jumping, climbing and eating. I flop down on the couch at the end of a long day and watch the weather report for tomorrow!