winter

I dislike winter quite a bit. I know I don't live in the right state for someone who dislikes winter, but I'd have to take that up with my ancestors and that would be a whole big thing.

January has got to be the worst month of the year. With the after-Christmas let down, the short gloomy days, the below zero temps, the germs keeping us from going anywhere indoors, the debilitating weather and the I'm so sick of my winter wardrobe complaints, it's a wonder I make it to February without just leaving on a jet plane out of here.

But we are into February now. Once February arrived, I suddenly noticed it's no longer pitch dark before 5pm. The sun seems to be shining more often and it even feels a little bit "warm" on my face. I see a light at the end of the tunnel with our trip to Arizona at the end of the month and when we return it will be March. March! Only two more months of winter after we return! I kid...only one and three quarters months.

With that said, I remember loving winter as a kid. It seemed like I played outside all of the time. I loved building snow forts, sliding on the "hills" at the edge of driveway after my dad shoveled, eating snow, feeling the cold wet snow creeping down my back and inside my gloves.

So it's no wonder Little Pie and Little Bird love playing in the snow too. And now that it's above zero (30 in fact!) and we actually have snow and not rock hard ice, it's been fun to go out and play the last few days.

Little Bird takes after me and eats snow 75% of the time she's outside. We've had the talk about the yellow stuff and the stuff with dirt and gravel in it. I know she just loves the cold on her face.

Just because it's winter, doesn't mean we can't visit the park. Little Pie thought the slide was awesome today because she was all wet, it was all wet and she could zoom really fast down it.

To me, it seems like the last few winters haven't given us the huge, giant snow I remember as a kid. But then again, I was smaller then so maybe it only seemed huge to me. Anyway, we found a pile of snow after the plows came through the parking lot at the park. The girls thought they were climbing a mountain!

But planking in the snow is something these girls came up with on their own. What is she doing???