Dear Mother Nature

Seriously? WTH? I will admit that I am a lover of the white fluffy flakes that fall from the sky; however, when it’s the end of April, I’m kind of done with it. This is how much snow you ended up dumping at my house on April 23rd:

Yes, that’s pretty much a foot of snow. My kids were so excited that you gave them a snow day, and I was actually OK with it. They had a blast playing outside building snow forts and everything else they could think of to do with shovels and a shitload of snow. But when you make it snow like this in April, it’s heavy wet snow. And when it’s this much heavy wet snow, the trees bend and touch the electrical lines, and the electricity goes out. For hours. I’m not faulting you for that. It was actually quite nice to relocate to the basement by the fireplace and not be able to use my computer; so I thank you for that. But after 6 hours, it starts to get a bit chilly in the house even with a fire burning.

So you owe me $40 that we spent going to see How To Train Your Dragon so we could warm up a bit. You also owe a big apology to all the kids who got their prom cancelled! And to Dave the Horn Guy whose show got cancelled at the school. And to the kids who lost all that fundraising money for their playground when the show got cancelled.

The next day it was so snowy and wet that all of our activities got cancelled - a Girl Scout nature hike, a soccer game, a baseball game, and a Boy Scout overnight camping trip - boo hoo Thank you for the awesome unexpected free day. No thank you for sad kids who were so excited for all their stuff that got cancelled. You also made it so friggin’ warm out that I had to snowblow the driveway 3 times to get all the snow off! The snow was so wet and heavy that I couldn’t possibly shovel it all, and the snowblower just spit it about a foot out of the chute. 3 times I had to do the driveway to get the snush off my driveway!

And the next day? You bring along a sunny 55 degree day so the kiddos were wearing shorts and t-shirts and riding bikes and rollerblading outside.

After that, we finally get a 74 degree day and what do you do? You add 70 mph wind gusts! My kids are tiny - they almost blew away waiting for the bus! We get excited for the awesome warm weather and you blast us with so much wind people had to tie down little dogs!

Your plan for this weekend apparently includes a cold front - one that quite possibly will include more snow. I have a news flash for you - Saturday is May. MAY! April showers are supposed to bring May flowers . . . it doesn’t say anything about April blizzards . . . I know it’s the 25th anniversary of the DQ Blizzard and all, but I think you’ve taken it a bit too far.

So please, oh Dear Mother Nature, snap out of it. My daughter wants to play soccer and wear shorts and flip flops. My son wants to play baseball without hand warmers inside his baseball glove. I want to go hiking. Hubby wants to go camping. We want to wash the snow gear for the last time (again) and put it away.

It is afterall, almost MAY. A foot of snow is just unacceptable at this point.

Sincerely,

She-who-loves-snow-but-is-ready-for-summer-activities-since-did-I-mention-it’s-almost-May