March 18: Spring Breaks

My spring breaks have varied throughout my life. My family is made up a group of teachers, so normally we all have a spring break. However, we all live in different states, so when we share spring break has always been different.

One spring break when I was in high school or college, my sister and her husband came to visit, and it snowed like inches! My brother-in-law and I built a huge snowman, and on the same day, it was 70 degrees. This is one of my favorite cool weather memories.

When I was a senior in high school, I took a trip to San Francisco with my sister Shawna to see my sister Suzi. We went down to the wharf, and we did some other sight seeing things as she lived in the Napa Valley actually. My favorite memory to retell from this trip is about a clown. There was a street clown, and he stopped us, and he "mimed" if we wanted a balloon animal. Suzi had a 3 year old little girl at home, and she was expecting my nephew. I suggested he make a bunny for my niece. He blew up a balloon, twisted, and it popped. He tried again. When he presented the balloon animal to my sister, there was a rabbit, and inside, there was a small balloon (baby bunny). We cried.

I have had lots of different spring breaks from sleeping through the spring break when I was pregnant with Haidyn to just trying to make the most of every day to shopping with my sisters in the rain or shine or going to the aquarium on St. Patrick's Day in Texas, when we all wear green. It does not matter how you spent spring break--we just need the break.

Our goals for our spring break is to put a little fun in every day and accomplish a few things around the house or for school as well. Down time was much needed in this house.