Lightly Chilled

This is that time of year when the weather is supposed to be warming up, with more sunshine and fewer freezing nights. And so, every year starting April 1 or a little before, I shut down all the heat in the house. Normally, that works out fine.

But this year, just to mock us, we have a few days of sub-freezing weather and, so I am told, a little bit of snow coming our way. Not enough to make me bring up the heat again, but we will have to bundle up for a bit, and make sure our slippers are at the ready for the cold floors.

It's only for a few days, but it seems odd after the impressive number of warm days we had during the winter months. Not to mention that it got up to 70 just a few days ago. Oh well.

William and Daniel have started spring sports, William having chosen tennis and Daniel track and field. Daniel would have loved to do tennis, too, but it's not offered in middle school. Someday.

The logistics are interesting, because there are only two cars, and they are both many miles south for the days when both Karen and Tom are at work.  For Daniel, it has no effect except when there's a meet, and usually Tom is home before the bus comes back.

But William has had to adapt more. He has to wait at the library, then walk to the town tennis courts, and then walk to a nearby park to wait until I can pick him up about 45 minutes after practice is over. He's being good about it, but he very much appreciates the days when I can take him to practice and pick him up on time.

Lots of running around between now and the end of the school year, but that's only a few months away.

Then summer will come, and there will be an entirely new schedule to deal with, and we don't even know what that is yet. So much fun being a parent in a resort area.

William's got his classes chosen for next year, and he's hoping to get into the culinary arts program at the vocational center. It's a two-year program where the students learn not only cooking, but all of the jobs that go into making a restaurant run. We've eaten at their little part-time restaurant at the school, and it's always a delight. William's very much looking forward to it.

I'm pretty much back to normal (as much as I ever am), and so I'm plowing into catching up with all the things I let slide when I wasn't feeling so well. Writing, songwriting, housework, publishing, construction.

And the website changes. Time to take away that winter look. I think it's jinxing us.