Is It Spring Yet?

Spring can not get here fast enough. Oh, I love Christmas time. It's a holly jolly time. Everyone is a bit nicer. Houses as far as the eye can see are dressed up in twinkling lights. Festive music can be heard in every store and feel good, holiday movies are on the TV. Yes...Christmas is nice. But unfortunately, with Christmas comes the dreaded winter. The bitter temperatures, the icy roads, the blankets of snow covering all that was once green. It's pretty. I can handle it. Kids can not. That beautiful blanket of glistening snow is merely an icy, white set of prison bars meant only for keeping energetic children inside. Mix that with the bitter, bite-your-nose off temperature, and it is a deadly combination resulting in the dreaded... (enter psycho music here)...Cabin Fever. Yup. My kids have it. It's not even the beginning of the cold days, and they are already bouncing off of the walls. Alex NEEDS his outside time. He begs me all day to go to the park or go outside and play and I have no choice but to tell him no. So to expel this insane amount of energy, Alex spends his time ramming the poor Christmas tree with his tractor and Abby practices pulling up and cruising on it's fragile pipe-cleaner branches. Why can't they play outside, you ask? Well, in case you aren't aware, we are amidst an arctic front and my wee ones have been battling various infections. Yet another reason we are desperate for the warmer days of spring. Alex and Abby got some kind of cold back on the day after Thanksgiving. They have yet to be well a single day since. Just when things were looking up and the snot was starting to lag, both of them got sick...again. Cue the snot rockets and breathing treatments. Hopefully they can all be well again soon and perhaps a few days will reach the 40's or 50's so that we can burn off a little of that Cabin Fever. Until then, you better pass me the glue...another Christmas tree ornament just bit the dust.