Reason No. 11 to be happy

rain

It's been raining all weekend. I want to snuggle up with a cup of tea and some hot soup. I say want because it is impossible to snuggle up next to anything when you have three bored children.

and so--

Today we listened to the rain and watched the rain swim down our windows.

We drew our own sunshine.

We walked through books and stepped out into the path of Splat the Cat.

We pretended it was snowing and that tap tap on the roof was really Santa's reindeer-- so we sang Christmas carols.

And yes, there was fighting and timeouts and messes to clean-up. Excedrin was swallowed.

But really, I was just thankful for the rain time (maybe it's because it's almost 10 and the kids are asleep-- it's always easy to be sentimental when no one's tugging on your sleeve).