This winter has been very mild. Which is odd and quite unexpected because I live in Ontario. Part of “The Great White North”. Apparently the USA received all our snow this winter and frankly, I hope you get it again next year. No offense intended, but we’ve had our share over the years. Your turn.
In fact we’ve barely had ANY snow this winter. Cold temperatures, sure – hence our backyard ice rink – but not too much of the Devil’s Fluff. In fact, the other day I noticed my daffodils starting to peep their heads up in my garden. Unheard of this early in the year, I assure you (love you Global Warming!).
But what the mild weather HAS brought is mud. Dirty, yucky, messy mud. Which is pretty much impossible for boys to stay away from. When there’s no snow balls to throw, apparently you use mud instead. When there’s no snow to walk through, you walk through mud instead. Even if your Mother threatens you within an inch of your life every morning to “STAY OUT OF THE MUD”. But they don’t listen, do they?! Noooooooo.
So I’ve just washed their winter coats and gloves AGAIN. For the THIRD time in as many weeks. Fortunately their boots can just be hosed off. But honestly boys – STAY OUT OF THE MUD – or I’m going to stop cleaning your stuff and you’re just going to have to go to school looking like this.
(source: Google Images)
Would you rather have snow or mud? Would you bother cleaning their coats and gloves every week or just let them be muddy? Would you like to live somewhere tropical where it’s gorgeous weather 12 months a year or do you like the changing seasons? Can I send you one of my Mud Monsters?
16 Responses to “Irresistible Mud”
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March 4th, 2010 at 5:52 am
Give me the beautiful sunshine all year!!!! But not here, I want to be on a tropical island with palm trees, beach bars, blue water, white sand, and someone like Andy Garcia, or Antonio Banderas by my side!!! What? Cant a girl dream!!!! MMMMMM those latin lovers!!!!
March 4th, 2010 at 6:10 am
I live on a dirt road. Our winter has been very much like Ontario. I noticed bulbs I had planted in November were coming up in December (what’s the chances they’ll survive till spring? NONE) So yeah, I hear you on the mud. I pull into the parking lot at work and people ask me, “Oh do you like go offroading in that thing?” My car looks like your kids, I’m sure!
March 4th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow I like it. Personally I think winter isn’t winter until you get a couple of good snowstorms. On the other hand, a break would be nice… How about next year we get half and you get half? Just a nice reasonable amount of snow for everyone (like 35 inches instead of 70) and then on to Spring!
March 4th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Snow all the way! Love it. And I need my seasons. I don’t know that I could live without them.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Oh man…mud is soooo messy! I used to play in and love the mud. Now not so much. I think if those are my only choices, I would say…wow this harder than I thought. hahaha. Good question.
Stopping by from SITS
March 4th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
i don’t know what it is with boys and mud. i was always covered in grass and dirt from rolling around outside, but mud wasn’t really my cup of tea. at least not until i got to college and we had drunken mud wars, but that’s different. i digress. i’d let them (and their clothes) stay muddy and force them to sleep in a designated mud room. actually that’s a lie, i am a clean freak so i’d comb over them like a monkey until they were all sparkly clean again. you can tell i’m going to be a great mother – no mcdonald’s and sleeping in a mud room.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I ONLY WISH i lived in a place where I saw snow. But alas, all I get is mud. Some people live in Texas because they like the lack of snow. But me? I wish I saw more of the changing seasons.
ps – i took a photo in my Canadian gear last night – plan to post it today!!
March 4th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
i never cared for mud. we have a lot of it- the 4-6 inches they predicted for today has been nothing but slush…but i would prefer snow, or sunshine please.
i always end up up north (nh, maine, vt) in mud season (b/c the hotels are the cheapest then) and it is always ick.
March 4th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I am going into a mild cardiac arrest right now. I would DIE if Jason walked up looking like this. DIE.
I know, I know. Boys will be boys, but can’t they remain farily clean and not touch me whilst not clean?
March 4th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
If it’s all the same to you, I would prefer NOT to have any of your mud monsters or your snow, thank you very much. But I would probably be very anal about cleaning mud-caked anything. Kind of like when it does snow…would you rather shovel an inch at a time as it comes down or 8 inches all at once. Yeah..it’s like that. And I would rather have rain. Because rain means temps above 32 degrees and that sounds like sweet orgasmic bliss to me right now. Warmth. Oooo, ahhhhh…
March 4th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Can we have some of that snow?
I walk to work anyway and hardly drive anywhere.. that’s the only downside to snow right? The driving?
Other than that it’s soft and fluffy and fun and awesome? I really want snow.
I guess we all want what we can’t have.
Cher
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March 4th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
You WALK to work?!?! Hate you.
And yes, the driving, and accompanying traffic, completely sucks. And the cold. And the wind. And it’s not all soft and fluffy. Sometimes it’s just wet and heavy. But mainly just yucky.
March 4th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
With Spring comes mud, something I have learned to adapt to as a mom. I have taken some of my kids’ older clothes, stuff with holes and whatnot, and these are their designated “play clothes.” The nice stuff for school is changed out of when they get home and the play clothes (including cruddy shoes) are donned for outside play. I wash those only as needed, sometimes letting them be worn more than once between washings *gasp*. This saves me laundry headaches and lets them explore what they want without fear of my wrath.
Mud monsters must head straight to the bathroom when entering the house, no exceptions. Strip the muddies off in the tub and grab a shower while you’re at it. Helps keep the house from getting muddy and rinses off the heavier mud into the tub (clothes are in the shower with the kid). Wrapped in a towel, they can go change, leaving the freshly rinsed muddies to drip dry in the shower.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
SNOW SNOW a million times SNOW! I like to hike and camp as much as the next gal, but I absolutely could never tolerate being THAT messy. And tracking it through the house afterwards. No thanks!
Cher
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March 4th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
But the snow that comes in the house stuck to the coats and hats and gloves and boots eventually melts. All over your floor. Not so nice.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I would rather have snow. I miss the snow. All the talk about “snow-pocalypse” back home made me terribly homesick.
Mud can be fun, too.