Winter is not my friend. I despise being cold. And I'm not that fond of rain unless it's a thunderstorm and I'm inside under an electric blanket sipping hot chocolate while the power stays on. And I don't like ice. Which is weird since I spent most of my formative years as a figure skater and I now spend 2-3 days a week at an ice rink watching my kids skate. Maybe it's long suppressed emotional scarring. Or maybe it all goes back to the first thought...I just despise being cold.
Anyway, I've also discovered another drawback to winter. My kids go completely bonkers with cabin fever. If there was lots of fluffy white snow on the ground I could at least let them run around outside until their runny noses were officially frozen to their faces. But today it's just icy and cold and drizzly and yucky. I can't in good conscience let them go play in the frozen wasteland but to them even a thin layer of dirty cracked ice should qualify as a snow day.
So now we're all in the house, schoolwork is done and the bickering has begun. Here's the scenario....Ella & Jack are playing zoo. It's an invisible zoo, which is awesome & full of imagination, but keep in mind it's invisible. After building all the invisible cages and filling them with invisible animals, Ella decides to take the invisible monkey on a walk. At which point Jack declares that he is the official invisible monkey wrangler.
Ella: "But he's my monkey."
Jack: "It's my zoo too!"
Ella: "Why don't you go walk the elephant."
Jack: "I don't want to walk an elephant. I want to walk the monkey."
Ella: "Go get a lion. Lions are cool."
Jack: "Elllllllllllaaaaaaaa."
At which point my head threatened to explode. So Mommy the ultimate arbitrator stepped in.
Me: "Here, I just bought another invisible monkey for your zoo. Now you have two."
Ella & Jack: (after a moment of stunned, wide eyed blinking silence) "Oh, ok."
And off they went with their invisible monkeys.
So, what time is Spring?
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