over it.

it's march. daylight savings time begins this weekend, daffodils are blooming in the yard, and we've already had several 70-degree days when the kids were outside in shorts. needless to say, i'm over the snow. what surprised me is that apparently, the kids are too. we awoke this morning to a few inches and no school, and i kind of dreaded taking them out in it. it wasn't the good kind of fluffy snow; it was the wet, slushy kind of nasty snow. i was prepared to bundle us all up anyway, but thankfully they showed absolutely no interest, probably because they could see the grass blades sticking up and the mud puddles near the front door. so, instead, this is what we did ... we built a fort in the family room. we made homemade playdough, colored it all sorts of funny colors, and played with it. we baked chocolate chip cookies. we used birdseed, peanut butter, and the pinecones we collected yesterday and made birdfeeders to hang from the trees. (and then expected the birds to immediately come flocking to it and were disappointed when they didn't. and then tried to yell at them with a personal invitation, which didn't seem to work either. see picture.) we had a vacuum vs. dustbuster race to see who could suck up the most birdseed off the kitchen floor. we got out every single pot and pan and metal cooking utensil and marched around the house as the mann family band. and then it was 10:05 a.m.