Marching On

I hope as we hit March here that we are truly moving into Spring. We can finally see large patches of bare ground. The snow is melting at a decent pace, not causing too much flooding. The boys can actually get out and run around. That is he key thing, outside physical activity. A forum for them to vent their pent up energy. We don't quite have cabin fever but it may be closely approaching. I don't think shoveling and sledding quite cut it as outdoor time. Not all fun time anyway. I realized that we haven't had that classic family snowball fight this year. Every year, at some point, we all end up outside, sneaking up on each other and looking for that opportune time to launch a snowball at some unsuspecting family member. Inevitably, the rest of the family joins in and there is a barrage of flying, frozen orbs. It always brings laughs. It is the type of moment that some families create all too infrequently. I don't want to suggest that we are not spontaneous. We don't plan out these moments. But we do look to create environments where moments like that are more likely to happen. We didn't plan to play hide and seek in Del Ray. It just happened. But that may have been one of the highlights of our trip. We didn't plan to play an outrageous game of Scattergories on the Islands with the in laws, but there was so much laughter, we caused a ruckus with the neighbors.