Because it's cold.

So we had a cold week this week. It froze. On Wednesday it was rainy, wet and cold, so we didn't walk to preschool, we drove. Well on Friday, it was cold again. It was in the 30's. So I figured we would drive again.

Shortly before 9, when we leave if we are walking, Cinderella asked if we were walking. I told her I thought we would drive today. She asked me why. I told her because it was cold.

Then she asked, "We are driving because it is COLD?" The tone of her voice seemed to mock me. So I broke out the coats and we walked. It really wasn't that bad. And yes I was just being a wimp. I'm glad my kids keep me active. I really need it.

Fog and Sunshine

So I grew up in a valley surrounded by mountains. One downside to this was in the winter time, sometimes we would get an inversion, having a warm air mass trap a cold air mass in the valley. When this would happen the pollutants would build up in the valley, because they couldn't escape. Well I don't know what they call it, when you live along a coast, but I can tell you it really isn't pretty. And we experienced it for a few days this week. It mostly just looks really foggy. Really dense in some places, not as much in others. But unfortunately it is more than fog. However yesterday morning it cleared.

Cinderella noticed it before I did. She looked out an open doorway, and said, "look blue sky!" I still didn't catch on. Then she said, "the gray is all gone." Then I realized why she thought the blue sky was so amazing. We were seeing the first blue sky we have seen in quite a while. Because before the fog, we have had a lot of gray rainy days. It has been so nice to see blue sky, and the temperatures have been a lot warmer too. It is kind of cray how it can feel like spring is coming when it is only January. But it has been nice.