They're here!

So a bunch of Ethan's family has come in from California to hang out for a bit. YAY! They are so fun! So right now we have my 3 children, plus 5 more children also under the age of 7, plus a mother-in-law, and a brother-in-law and his wife.( Thanks for Kate for all her help getting my house ready for the invasion.) Luckily I think they are all really fun to have around, though this is the first time I have gotten to deal with any of the children in nearly 3 years, so some of them weren't even alive at that point. It is really great getting to have lots of little cousins get to be friends. I think that is how cousins should be, friends, not distantly separated.

I will admit however, that I am not a huge kid person. I LOVE my kids, I TOLERATE most other kids for the first while and then I start to love them. One of my nieces must watch too much TV at home, seeing as all the other kids her age can just watch a movie and let me take a nap, but she is the one running around the house, and keeps coming to ask me if she can do different things. Currently we are having quiet time. If I don't have quiet time, I don't exist. My life ends (at least for the day anyway.) She specifically requested a movie, I finally put it on for her after the other one was over, then she brought me a book and asked me to read it to her. I may be the worlds most awful aunt but my response was, " Not right now, you wanted that movie, get in there and watch that movie." At least none of them seem terrified of me, which is quite impressive since none of them really know me. YAY! I must not be totally terrible to a small child.