Just one of the reasons I hate winter... we need to move south.

I suppose I hate snow because I'm lazy. My main reason for hating it is because it creates a lot of extra work. Of course there's plowing and cleaning it off cars and such, but there's also cleaning up all the puddles and other stuff you drag in the house because your shoes are wet. There's getting bundled up to stay warm, which makes you bulky and your kids bulkier. There's boots and things to stay dry - which require carrying other shoes along (or just leaving your boots on, which leaves puddles and crap all over the floor). With kids, very young ones anyway, it's just brutal. I have a hard enough time keeping the floor clean enough for Liam to scootch around on without all the pine needles and dirt and wet dragged in by the snow. And the older girls, of course, want to go out and play, but that means getting them dressed (which sounds simple, but it's a big long process with the extra layers and the bulky snow suits and the hats and the scarves and the mittens and the boots) and then trying to keep an eye on them through the window. And most of the time, if they fall, they can't get up because they're too bulkified. And if the older girls go out, Lorelei will want to go out, which means I have to go out and then what do I do with Liam? Once I can get them all dressed and send them outside by themselves for an hour or so, it won't be quite so bad. Once they're not crawling on the floor and putting things in their mouths, it won't be so bad. Right now, it's bad and I hate it. I didn't even mention the extra laundry. Snow is pretty while it's falling and for about an hour or so afterwards, but then it gets all melty and slushy and dirty and ugly. And then it refreezes and it's hard and slick and still dirty and ugly and the piles just sit around forever looking horrible. And, on a personal issue, our backyard is a huge mess because it never got cleaned up from the last time the kids were out (not to mention the fact that we have our horrible 1/2 torn down porch and dilapidated old dog barn and a pile of pieces from the porch just sitting there looking ugly). There's nothing that irks me more (actually, there is, but go with it) than new fallen snow making lumps and bumps on things that aren't supposed to be laying around. Ugh. I just want to crawl in bed until spring.