Welcome Spring

I woke up this morning, not hearing the snow melt, or the birds chirping, but to the sounds of my 3 year old walking around the house saying, "goodbye snow" "Hello Spring"

And I layed in bed and wondered... It is Spring. Wow!

Not to put a damper on my post, but Spring really means nothing weather-wise to Manitobans. All it means is that we can officially eliminate "Winter" from our vocabulary for a few months. Yes, we may have a few days left of frigid temps, and yeah, we may get blasted with snow before June... It won't be bad though - I think the temps will say above 0c during the days for the most part... give it a couple of weeks... maybe....

I've read that it will get as high as 9c on Tuesday. To us Manitobans, that means, no more winter coats, and boots. Heck, I can guarantee that I'll see at least a dozen high school age/college age kids wearing shorts.

My 6 year old has been begging to wear her rain boots. (Which I bought early this year to avoid the mad rush). And I told her she could wear them once the temps rose to over 0c. Of course, today it's going to be a hot 4c and we completely forgot. I'm sure I'll hear about this the whole weekend.

Yesterday I went on a search for splash pants. (of course, I never thought of that while buying the boots).. nor did I think of it when I bought the girl's their spring jackets... Nope... not a pair to be found. What gives??

I'm sure I'll have to hit Walmart and check.. just this year I was hoping the splash pants would actually "match" the spring jackets!

Welcome Spring. You have improved many a mood. Kids are smiling, and even my 3 year old is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Today - she has her mind set on "puddle splashing" She plans on getting me soaking wet.. jeesh thanks there! LOL I will need to hunt down splash pants for her... I know I have some.. somewhere...

And maybe Spring will bring me some organizational skills.. I need to purge this house... things have got to go.

Ahh Spring. The season of hope.