Spring Survey

Copying this survey from Emily - I thought this was a perfect way to start off spring. Is it just me or did January feel like it lasted 6 months - it always does, and now I'm in shock it's April??

1. What three colors remind you of spring?

Basically pastels. This also reminds me of Easter. Pastel blue, green, pink, yellow, green...I know that's more than 3 but just the softer version of all colors.

This just screams SPRING to me!!!

2. What is the first thing you add to your spring wardrobe?

This is a hard one to answer since Texas winters can have plenty of days that are warm. I guess I would say the consistent wearing of flip-flops?

3. What is the first wardrobe item you ditch in the springtime?

Sweaters - even in winter I wear a lot of short-sleeved shirts and just add a sweater or hoodie. In the spring, I just wear the short-sleeved shirt without the added layer.

4. Who mows the grass where you live?

A yard service! I have help clean inside, and Brent has help outside! I really love this too because at our old house, Brent would mow typically twice a week, and he is so particular about his lawn, it would be a multi-hour ordeal. So I'm solo-parenting but he's doing manual labor - neither of us enjoyed that!

5. What's spring like where you live?

Cool in the morning and warm to hot in the evening. As I mentioned on Wednesday, Drew is extremely frustrated right now because of the need for leggings or a light hoodie in the morning, but she's hot in the afternoon.

For example, today the low is 49 and the high is 81!

6. What's your favorite thing about spring?

The return of color! We go from a blah, gray landscape - the sky is gray, the grass is dead, there are no flowers to gorgeous yellow sunshine, bright green grass, and flowers exploding everywhere! I drive a lot starting at the side of the road at all the beautiful flowers - almost like when Christmas lights first come on, ha!

Who am I kidding? Bluebonnets are my favorite thing about spring!

7. Are you a spring cleaner?

Nope, I don't do anything special. Most of our true cleaning is done by our cleaning lady, and I just do little things in between her coming - mainly trying to keep the house picked up, vacuuming with my cordless vac every few days, wiping off counters...that kind of stuff. I save the deep cleaning for her.

8. Are you a baseball fan?

Nope. It's funny because Brent's mom is a HUGE baseball fan - she's had season tickets to the Texas Longhorns baseball games for over 20 years, and Brent also loves Texas baseball, but I don't care at all.

9. Tulips or daffodils?

Since I don't know what a daffodil looks like, I guess I have to say tulips. Ha!

10. Favorite outdoor spring activity?

Just the fact that we can play outside without being SO HOT which will happen by mid-May. I love swimming, which I guess we start doing while it's technically spring, but I consider that our main summer activity.

11. Flowers in the ground or pots?

Ground. I have killed every potted plant I've ever owned. EVER. I love when our flowerbeds are full of beautiful flowers! Although we have to be careful what we plant {or really I should say what Brent plants} because we have deer everywhere and they eat most plants. Some day we'll fence in our backyard and do more plants back there.

12. Favorite bird?

Never once thought about this in my life.

13. Car wash or wash vehicle at home?

Car wash - the twice a year I wash my car.

14. When do you pull out your sandals?

I never put them away, it just goes from wearing them periodically to wearing them every day. I have 2 pairs of Old Navy flip-flops {one black, one brown} that I will wear 99% of the next 6 months. They are super cheap and last year I had a silver pair that I wore every day and at the start of this spring the sole separated. So yeah, flip-flops are my favorite.

My black pair! {$8 I might add!} LOVE.

Drew the Diva

Brent and I were having a little laugh the other day about the Drama that is our Drew. I wanted to share some stories to paint a picture of what it's like in our household right now.

Yes, she's dramatic, but isn't she also so darn cute?!?!

We're in the season of cool in the morning and hot in the afternoon. Monday morning she was crying because she wanted to wear leggings in the morning and shorts in the afternoon, so she didn't know what to wear.

She asked me to buy her 'real' shorts instead of all the biker shorts she has. I reminded her that she has had numerous pairs of shorts {all hand-me-downs thankfully} over the last 4+ years that she has refused to wear. But it's MY fault she doesn't have any shorts now. sigh

Brent and I have each had multiple conversations telling her we're never going to know when something is really wrong or she's really hurt because she cries SO much that we tune her out. She's like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, except she's just the Girl Who Cried.

Brent and I had the following text exchange about why our kids cry:
Trent: seriously hurt
Paige: gets hurt or doesn't get her way
Drew: feelings are hurt, maybe a little bit physically hurt, doesn't like her clothes, someone else is loud, she's scared, someone else is in trouble, really hurt, she's sad - all said by me - and Brent responded with 'the wind blows'. Yup.

We were talking about all the clothes Paige has that used to be Drew's but are brand new because 2-year-old Drew refused to wear them. She told me 'If I were 2 now, I'd wear all the clothes you bought me.' I promptly followed that up with asking her why she doesn't wear half the clothes I bought her that are currently hanging up in her closet {that she picked out}. No response from her...

After all this, Brent sent me a video clip of a Jeff Foxworthy show where he talks about being a father to 2 girls, and he said 'I spend half my life trying to figure out what people are crying about.' which Brent felt really summed up his life right now.

All jokes aside, she really is the sweetest girl with the biggest heart...if we could just get ALL the tears to stop! {grin}