There are four parts of winter in the Midwest. There is fall-winter, Christmas-winter, winter-winter, and mud-winter. Fall-winter is what happens when it snows on Halloween, when you realize you need a serious coat, when the sharpness of the air starts to take your breath away. Christmas-winter is when you dream of snowflakes and relish twinkle […]
On Monday my husband took down our Christmas trees and garlands. He graciously did it while I was gone, so that I wouldn’t have to do it and wouldn’t have to watch him do it. Taking down the Christmas decorations makes me ridiculously sad. It signifies the end of the holidays and the beginning of […]
The weather is teasing us. We’ve had crisp, cool days and hot, humid days. It’s kind of summer and kind of fall, like the season is trying to shift, trying to slide into what’s next, but it hasn’t clicked over quite yet. But our schedule has clicked over. We are well into the school […]