Mid-March Musings

I can’t believe it’s already mid-March. Next week my kids have spring break! And after that it’s two months until their summer break starts. (My spring and summer breaks start two weeks after theirs.)

And we’re talking about summer break a lot these days. Saturday was Rec and Park’s camp sign up. We got all five camps we wanted for our son! And the one we wanted for our daughter! Last summer we got NO camps, so it was a very pleasant surprise to get all of them this year. Especially after we got an error message on the check-out page and assumed we had to start over.

We also bought our tickets to Hawaii, using the $150 a person vouchers we got last year because of the debacle getting home. Our friends are hoping to make Hawaii a yearly event and as long as we’re invited we will be going!

I still haven’t nailed down St. Louis travel yet. The tickets for that are crazy expensive ($600 a flight!?) because of where July 4th falls and the fact that I’m not interested in stretching that trip out over two weeks anymore. We’re also trying to stop in Charleston, South Carolina on the way home, to visit my cousin and her kids. But we have the kids in camp on either side of those two weeks, so I’m sure I’ll be spending more than normal for those flights.

I think one reason I’m surprised it’s mid-March is that the days are still pretty chilly around here. Usually by mid-March we are reliably in the mid-60s, but this week it’s all mid-50s again. We had some mid-60s days last week and I was reminded just how cold (relatively) it’s been all winter here, and how much the weather affects me. It’s just such a relief to not be cold all the time, to go into a part of the house that isn’t heated and not feel frigid air.

And of course it’s still raining a lot. I know we need the rain, desperately, but I wish we could space it out over the years, instead of suffering through droughts and then months of non-stop rain. I could definitely use some sun.

{It was sunny this afternoon and I took a walk with my son and it felt amazing. So, so needed a little sun on my face, especially since it rained all Sunday and is supposed to rain all Tuesday.}

But it’s also a bit of a relief that it’s still been so grey out, because my back is still jacked and it would hurt my heart to see sun and not be able to run. Today my back feels a smidge better, so maybe I’m on the mend? I’m really over whatever this is. The original pain was in my mid- to lower-back, but now it’s spread across my shoulder blades (probably because I was holding myself weirdly, and sleeping weirdly). I’m so impatient when I’m hurting and healing. And it happens more and more now that I’m solidly in my 40s.

Going to post this now because a poorly concluded post is better than a never-published post!