Spring, is that you?

Just last week we were stuck in a deep freeze, temps in the single digits, windchill in the negatives. February tends to be the month that our patience of winter starts to wear thin, and we welcome the warm reminder of Spring. Sledding, building snow forts, getting pulled behind the 4 wheeler or snowmobile, and helping shovel are a few of the things the kids enjoy, but even they are getting cabin fever and sick of having to take an extra 20 minutes in the day to get dressed and undressed.

The last few days have been our "reminder" that there is more to Wisconsin than winter, temps in the high 30's with beautiful sunshine. The snow is melting away, leaving patches of grass visible, and even mud in some spots. On Sunday the kids played outside for over 3 hours, by themselves! It even shocked me that I didn't get the usual tattling, but they were so busy playing on the snowpile, to shoveling snow/mud by the barn, to then washing their "tools" off with runoff from the gutters by the end of the 3 hours they didn't have time to argue!

Laura came in and promptly passed out, meanwhile Jason and Alex put together what is probably the first and last snowman of the year. By the time Laura woke up from her nap it was dark out, so I told Alex he'd have to show her in the morning. Come Monday morning they both ran to the window, anticipating some shrieks of excitement-I was quickly amused to hear Alex say in a puzzled voice, "his head fell off!". Sure enough, the warm temps overnight had made his head literally fall off and all that was left were the remnants of the face laying next to the body. Alex was a little distraught at first, but we all ended up getting a good laugh out of it.



Spring, I sure hope it's you-we're all ready to nix the cabin fever, open some windows, and enjoy the outdoors again!