April Showers...I guess

Have you ever had one of those days? You wake up and think to yourself, 'April 17th...middle of spring. It's going to be a glorious day! Spring sun, birds chirping. Maybe I'll work in the yard. Take the kids for a walk. Transplant the garden that is currently on our windowsill and lay in the grass and look for shapes in the clouds. The girls and I can sit on the porch swing and sip lemonade because it's the middle of spring and that's what you do.' So you finish having this conversation in your head and you hop onto the floor out of bed, run over to the window and open the shade and you see.....8 inches of snow on the ground. What?!?!?!? Didn't I say it was April 17th? Where's the sun? There's a garden to be planted and a swing to be swung in and lemonade to be drunk. I want to look for bunnies in the sky not look at a white blanket of clouds. Meanwhile Carson woke up and checked his work email and low and behold....University of Phoenix was closed for the day. The one good thing about getting pounded with snow in the middle of spring is Daddy getting the day off.
Oh spring, you were good to us the for the two weeks that you decided to make your presence known. We enjoyed being able to wear short sleeves and walk to the park in March. I loved that my grass was starting to grow a lovely shade of yellow green as opposed to the dead brown that we had been 'enjoying'. It was a fun couple of weeks and that will not be forgotten.
But, Mother Nature, what do you have against us. Why is it that I look outside and it hasn't' stopped snowing in thirty hours and we have two feet of the wet fluffy stuff holding us captive in our home? Why didn't you send this to us back in, oh say, the winter months when it's supposed to come our way. Really, this is a dirty trick to play on us.
We did venture out yesterday when it looked like the snow was lightening up. We went to go see Monsters vs. Aliens but it wasn't a huge deal as the movie theater is just down the street from us, the result of a law in Castle Rock regarding theaters and their proximity to liquor stores....but that's a for another post. When we left the house, the driving and snow fall was really no big deal. But when we left the theater, it was pretty much a white out. FUN!
So, I hope you all are enjoying the spring weather that you are enjoying in your respective parts of the country. And please say a prayer for us that our heat will stay warm and our food supply will hold up while we thaw out this frozen tundra.