March 1

Does anyone remember my November 1 post? I do. It snowed. On November 1 it was cold (the heat had not been turned on yet) but fun to see our first snow. HOWEVER, it is now March 1. And it snowed. To this southerner, March and snow should not be in the same sentence. However, despite the fact that yesterday ended the Spring Festival, spring is nowhere in sight. And the heat gets turned off on March 15. In fact, I think they have started to turn it down already, because on sunny day I wear a T shirt in the house, but today I had on 2 pants layers and 3 shirt layers and was still slightly chilly in the house (there was no sun, but still).

We sent Chris off early this morning. He is in town tonight at an overnight retreat, but we won't see him again till March 9. Austin and I made a countdown paper chain today. It is nine links of construction paper and on each link I wrote down something Austin likes about Daddy. I didn't think he would think of all of them, but he almost did. It is a good visual for the boys (well, mainly Austin) to take one off every day until Daddy gets home. My first day of being a single parent went pretty well, except for some coinciding major meltdowns around the magic hour of 5 pm. Hopefully I will sleep well tonight...I never sleep as well when Chris is gone.

Here is hoping spring comes soon!