For the last couple of months, Dominic's had an obsession with calendars. We have a calendar with family pictures that my aunt sent at Christmas time that he particulary likes. Every morning, the first two phrases I usually hear are, "I'm hungry" and "Can I look at the calendar?" He likes to go through every month and talk about every.single.birthday.and.holiday. It gets a bit tedious as we talk about the same events day after day. I don't know how we'd passed over Passover (get it? har har) until today, but he asked me what Passover was. I gave him a brief explanation, which he quickly refuted by saying, "Oh, I know! It's when Jewish people pass out papers!" Oh, Dominic. :)

Not much in other news. It's snowing again today. Imagine that. I keep giving myself little milestones to look forward to so I can make it through every long winter day. It's almost the end of February and, right after that, we have Daylight Savings to look forward to! (Fake it til you make it, right?!)

Winter is rough on my mental health and this particular February is proving especially challenging. We've had three snowstorms in the past two weeks and more snow days than I can even remember to count. Come on, spring!

Dominic turned six on the 10th of this month. We offered him the option of having a "friend party" or just going as a family to an indoor water park about 30 miles from here. He picked the water park, which was a big relief to an OCD mama who doesn't want the snowy, muddy shoes of god-only-knows-how-many kindergarteners all over my carpet. (I am so shallow. Really.) We couldn't go ON his actual birthday... anyone want to take a guess why?! We ended up going yesterday instead. Fun, fun, FUN. Let me tell you, if you closed your eyes in that lovely heated water park and tuned out all the screaming kids, you could almost FEEL summer. It gave me hope. Winter doesn't last forever. Well, unless you live in the tundra, I suppose. Thankfully, in Ohio we have beautiful springs and summers, we just have to make it to them. So, I am hanging on!