May May...

Go away.

Shhhh, did I really say that? Okay fine, I said it! Don't act like you don't feel the same way! May is hard. When I am trying to rush May to it's 11 month hibernation like I am today, I hear the Crowded House song "Don't Dream It's Over" in my head and I try to remind myself that every day is a gift and a blessing because I really do believe that in my heart. It's just so hard to hear it through all the commotion, or maybe I'm not listening hard enough.

To add to my May woes, once a week we have been reverting back to winter around here. It's the end of May and my kids should by now be automatically dressing themselves in shorts and short sleeves but still each morning I get the question: "is it a cold day or a hot day or mixed?" We went to a birthday party Saturday and it was originally a swim party but turned out to be a near record setting cold evening [but a great party none the less] and we took our frozen feet home and warmed them by a nice fire! Yep, I said a fire! In late May! In California!

I am ready to take a break from the scriptedness of the school year and enjoy some ad-hoc time with my kids. I'm weary of trying to catch the deluge in a paper cup and I want to get to know the feeling of liberation and release. Oh, and I hope the weather catches up to us too.

If I could talk to Spring, I would tell her this:

Spring,
I served with winter,
I knew Winter,
Winter was a friend of mine.
Spring, your no Winter.
So man up and start behaving like late Spring or just roll over and let it be Summer already!

Thank you :)