This weather has me like…..
Anyone else? This is always a challenging time of year for me. Its so dark, leaving me so tired, and usually a bit downtrodden. Its nothing I can’t handle, of course, but today, true winter hit in full swing. It rained yesterday, and now today its below zero (not by much all on its own) but the wind is bananas, gusting over 50 km/hr all day long. I drove Dekker to school for the first time this school year. He’ll still walk in winter, but this wind is unreal. And the wind combined with yesterday’s rain and todays snow is leaving things suuuper icy.
We need our winter tires on. But this week is the week we’re finally getting our bus in for hail damage repairs, and since our bus is the size that it is, its not going to be a super quick fix. We’ve been told to expect it to be gone through the entire work week. The auto body shop has told us they can rent us a vehicle for about half the cost anywhere else, which is appreciated, but will be interesting. They’re giving us a minivan. Which technically fits everyone, but I’m not confident it’ll fit everyone’s car seats. We called Driving Force, where we got our van initially, to see what they had to offer us in terms of rentals, and to get something like our bus would set us back almost $200/day! We obviously can’t justify that, so we’ll hope for the best with the minivan!
It feels like a bit of a weird time to me. Just the changing of seasons, I suppose. I’m not going to push, though. I won’t pretend I love winter. But I’m not going to be a whiner either. Instead, I’ll hang out in cozy clothes in my cozy house with my cozy kids, and drink cozy coffee and eat cozy muffins and wipe everyone’s noses with cozy tissues. Because winter.
Maybe I’ll do a little online Christmas shopping while I’m at it. Assuming Canada Post isn’t on strike for the next two months, that is…