It’s Spring Break kiddies.
This is the first time in a couple of years that we aren’t going away. The friends we usually visit already had company. As we have been so busy and are saving for various home improvements we decided to stay home. We always enjoy visiting our friends but a trip half way across the country with three children, in a van no less, requires a lot of preparation and depletes a good amount of energy. I was looking forward to staying home and putzing around the house. And then I looked at the forecast and remembered I live in Michigan. It’s grey skies and cold – rainy when we’re lucky.
Good thing I gave up complaining.
I know a woman who, one dreary Spring Break, made up a whole camping scheme in her living room and then invited more children over to play with her two boys. They made a “fire” with newspaper logs, played games, made crafts, sang songs and had a wonderful time. She relayed all this to me with sparkling eyes.
“Oh yeah, I read about that in Family Fun.”
She looked down and modestly said that she had done it first which I considered extremely bad manners. It’s terrible enough to follow through on an activity plan from Family Fun but to beat them to the punch is unforgivable.
I taught my children to speak and to read so that they could enjoy my idea of family fun: talking and reading a good book, Spring Break delights that will help them get into college someday. You can’t say that about a fake campfire, can you?
Tania said it was rainy and cold there yesterday. That sucks. But at least you didn’t have to get kids into swimsuits, fill the little wading pool, and chase the diapered Raccoon down the street. Dogwoods and redbuds in bloom, azaleas and wisteria blossoming, sunny and 70s – it’s all too crazy weird down here.
Actually, we’ve got thunderstorms rolling through today. Even in God’s Country some days are “dark and dreary.”
Enjoy your break. Ours begins Friday.