Usually my least favorite month, this year March felt merciful. Snow and ice melted, family visited, the dog almost made it a year without an injury.
| # of hours outside | 66.5 |
| # of times I thought it would be fun to make snowmen in our friends’ yard | 1 |
| # of times my kids helped me make snowmen in our friends’ yard | 0 |
| # of times my kids wanted to pose for a picture with the snowmen I made in our friends’ yard | 1 |
| # of times I felt like The Little Red Hen | 1 |
| # of hikes with cousins | 2 |
| # of hikes with grandma | 1 |
| # of afternoons spent at winery with my childhood best friend | 1 |
| # of years passed since I had seen my childhood best friend | 3 |
| # of children accompanying afternoon with my childhood best friend | 0 |
| # of minutes my childhood best friend and I walked around searching for public bathroom with electrical outlet to facilitate pumping | 47 |
| # of times I thought “men never have to do this” | 1 |
| # of blog posts composed in my head | 4 |
| # of blog posts actually written down | 1 |
| # of times my children deemed it warm enough to wear flip flops | 10 |
| # of times I embraced this | 10 |
| # of times I was blinded by the whiteness of my feet in flip flops | 10 |
| # of times I came downstairs from putting baby down for nap to find front door open and our preschooler running around half naked in the sunshine | 1 |
| # of days a melted ice rink graced our front yard | 31 |
| # of hours our children spent using melted ice rink as enormous water table | 40 |
| # of times I saw the dog use the melted ice rink as a pool | 1 |
| # of times I can only assume the dog used the melted ice rink as a pool, based on frequency with which my children leave the front door open | 15 |
| # of times we told the kids not to drink out of the melted ice rink | 7 |
| # of days our neighbors have probably dreamed of our yard without a melted ice rink | 31 |
| # of times we ate outside because it felt “balmy” | 4 |
| # of times I have realized life without daily snowsuits is amazing | 4728 |
| Total hours outside Year To Date | 178.55 |