happy places

I'm posting these pictures tonight because it's been a while since we've seen sunshine. Yesterday we had snow and last night it started sticking to the ground. These pictures are my protest. When the snow began to accumulate on the ground, I was starting to feel, shall we say, heavy laden. So in a moment of self-preservation I loaded up the kids and took them to the cupcake shop. It was 5:15pm. We hadn't had supper. Rory was gone for the night. And Ivar was protesting that he didn't want to go to the cupcake shop. But Mama did. Mama needed to go to her happy place.

Last year I started frequenting the cupcake shop in February as a way to cope with the weather. This winter I knew I couldn't start cupcake season that early. So this year I waited until March for my first official "winter-getaway" trips. Cupcake Season will conclude just as soon as I can wear flip flops again.

And when the sun is warm again, and lighting up the earth, we'll count this recent discovery as my new happy place. A friend of mine brought us here last week to throw rocks and sticks. I think we'll be spending lots and lots of time here this at this park this summer, swapping the cupcakes for the creek.