Last night we had a few inches of that heavy wet yucky snow dumped on us. I know I shouldn’t complain. It has been a VERY MILD winter this year in Chicago. Last year around this time we were still seeing piles and piles of snow everywhere from our 20+ inch snowfall in one day. That was awful.
As I get older, I am starting to detest winter more and more – read that as HATE WITH A PASSION. I never thought I’d be one of those people who would move to Florida when they got older but I am really thinking about it lately. Why wait for older? I’m ready now.
This is what the bottom of my driveway looks like. It’s what most of the streets around here look like. It’s worse where they haven’t plowed. The school parking lot was incredibly bad this morning. You think they’d plow the damn thing from a safety standpoint. Nope. Hopefully it’ll be plowed when I go pick up Dan.
But as I was driving back from the gym this morning (yes I have gotten myself back to the gym this week!) and I saw this mess all over the streets, I looked up.
Boy what a view change! It was BEAUTIFUL! I’ll have to remember to look up more often. My photo doesn’t do the snow covered trees justice.
This week in life
I posted a separate update about my running and my return to the gym here.
Dan is doing well in Karate so much so that they want to move him up to the official “adult belt” class. In the class he’s currently in they let the kids slide more on discipline. The new class will still have kids Dan’s age but it’s focus is very different. Instead of being one of the older kids, he’ll be one of the youngest. Dan isn’t always focused in class but he’s been doing really great – moving up color stripes each time he tests. He really seems to like Karate.
They want to move him up to the other class after his next testing (for his blue stripe) which would be end of March. Usually they move the kids up after they test for their black stripe. I guess they feel he’s ready and is serious and focused. HA! I know Dan can be very focused but he’s also a typical 7 year old boy who goofs off more often than not.
The other class only tests every 6 months so that will definitely be different. Currently he tests every 8 weeks. I’m not sure they’d have him test for a black stripe or test him for an adult white or orange. I’m still unsure how it all works.
Anyway in preparation for the class move, I picked up this belt display so we can display all his belts in his room. They’ve just been hanging in his closet. lol! Now I just have to hang it on his wall.
The girls had their final swim meet of the season this past Monday. It was a long day for poor Dan but he was a trooper. They had to be there at 3pm and we weren’t out of there until 7pm. Swim meets are so long for watching about 4 minutes of swimming.
The girls each swam 3 events and ended up with personal bests for two of them! They were super excited. Here are some photos taken with my 55-250mm lens from the balcony. I’m still obviously working on my camera skills but I think these came out pretty decent.
Both of them shaved off a few seconds from their previous 100 free times. Very proud of them both! Jess almost pulled out the win coming from way behind. It seems like she is always last off the block. lol!
So the swim season is officially over. They’ll have a break for a few months until they start up again in the summer.
