March is such a tease, isn’t she? She will you with warm weather (I wore a t-shirt and capris last week!) and then she will randomly dump snow on you when you least expect it (See: almost every morning this week). We’re lucky in that we don’t have the waist-deep snow drifts that our prairie friends do, nor the incessant grey clouds and rain that our Vancouver friends do. I know this, but I am also spoiled after living in the sunny Okanagan for twelve years.
The kids are on two weeks of spring break and as we peeled off the layers of outerwear last week, I had great visions of walks down along the lake, hikes with the dogs in the mountains, and just being outside working in the yard while the kids jump on the trampoline that Dad took out of storage for them. (See above.) The kids have continued to jump on the trampoline as the temperature dropped over the past few days, but have to wave the white (Ha!) flag yesterday when the snow that had been falling and melting started accumulating.
It will melt today, but STILL.
The good news is that there is fresh powder on the ski hill and we plan to take as much advantage of it as we can, because the season is almost over. On the days that we aren’t skiing, I’d like to politely request that the snow stop falling. We have thirteen days left of spring break and there are so many episodes of AFV that I can watch with the kids on Netflix before I go insane.
(I hit that limit yesterday, for the record.)
I love my kids, and we have a lot of fun together, and I am one of those weird Moms who enjoys the two weeks of spring break. There are no early-morning routines and no after-school activities and no daily lunches to pack. There are late(r) evenings where we all wedge on the couch to watch a movie and there are impromptu trips to grab milkshakes and there are pancake breakfasts and there are hikes and walks and hours spent on the trampoline.
We just need the sun to win the arm wrestle with the snow for good and it will be a golden two weeks, indeed.
Comments:
I’m weird like you – I love having my kids home when it’s the school holidays. But I hope for your sake that you don’t get too much snow, so that your kids can do their trampoline ninja thing. Still seems so funny to read about your weather warming up when ours is due to start cooling down. The snow sure does look pretty though!
It’s melted, thankfully. I love reading about your opposite weather happenings, too.
I also enjoy spring break, although I’ll admit that some days I go kind of crazy. But not this spring break. We’re going on a road trip (in two weeks)(our spring break is not your spring break) and I LOVE road trips. Although we’ll also be seeing my parents and *they* might make me go kind of crazy, but it will still be fun all the same.
I hope your spring break goes well! And that your snow melts! And that OURS DOES, TOO.
I hope so, too!
(And thanks for fixing my site, and reply, etc.)
This is the WORST March ever! We have yet to break 50 degrees! Shit, I don’t know that we’ve broken 40, to be honest. There are still wind chills! I’m so tired of this!
New site looks great!
Thanks!
And here’s hoping it warms up for you SOON.
Hey, at least you had a little spring teasing! We are still buried SO DEEP in snow and looking outside my window right now? It is STILL snowing! It’s insane and I am SO over winter!
Wow, that trampoline shot is incredible!
The contrast in those two pics. Wow!