Journal Entry: December 22,2014

First day of the 2014-15 winter season and I fantasize about future winters of me and my future wife taking the kids out, bundled-up in the thickest, fuzziest snowsuits and let them play in the snow. Of course, with Christmas coming in a few days, I also fantasize about how excited the kids get when informed of Santa's impending arrival and how my wife and I might use the usual threat of coal in their stockings to get the kids to comply to our bidding to take their bathes or eat all their vegetables or to put their toys away and hop into bed and the like.