Spring has clearly missed the on-ramp this year. Why are we still getting snowed in, on, and around??
Erin: March is in like a lion, out like a lamb, and all that.
Ellen: Well, I’m ready for some lamb chops. It’s been especially brutal this year.
Erin: Grrr! It makes me stabby. Like Brutus.
Ellen: Nice Ides of March reference.
Erin: I guess we could take comfort that we’re not having as bad a March as Caesar did. There’s that.
Ellen: Et tu, Brute? Let’s swing this shamrock back to the 21st century.
1) Chores Multiply Exponentially
March dials it up a notch. Now in addition to the massive amount of spring cleaning inside, it’s time to cut back the bushes and clear the detritus from the flowerbeds outside too. We could probably hear March maniacally laughing, but in this thirty degree weather we’re wearing earmuffs to pull weeds. Probably best to just leave it for the kids to do during summer break anyway.
2) Schizoid Wardrobe
Oh March, you are one wild and crazy girl! One day we have to pile on the sweaters and the next we’re looking for a tank top. And footwear? Fuggedaboutit! Can you please just let us pack away the snow pants and mittens? We call mercy!
3) Hokey Holidays
St. Patty’s Day? Who is this holiday really for? Preschoolers and college kids, that’s who. If you’re not making glittered shamrocks or guzzling whiskey and green beer, what’s really the point? Besides, true Irish girls drink whiskey every day of the year. Or so we’ve heard.
4) It’s cold
That damn groundhog is on our hit list. Brrrrrrrr. Everyone is cold, cranky, and stabby. We are over these blocks of ice we call feet. Truly.
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5) Calendar Clustermuck
Winter sports are not over and spring sports have already begun. Have you seen our complicated calendars?? You’re hitting us where it hurts, March. We are not happy and we’re taking names.
6) Early Easter
We don’t mind wearing sweaters over our Easter best, but we would rather not have to don the old parkas too. Who wants an Easter picture where the kids look like they’re hitting the slopes instead of hunting for eggs?
7) Daylight Savings Time Blues
Our more seasoned internal clocks don’t spring forward like they used to. We can’t fall asleep an hour early that first night, and it’s all downhill from there. By the end of the week, we’re the crazy ladies in the supermarket talking to our tomatoes. And our kids? Shudder.
8) Confused Cart
When you have de-icer and grass seed snuggled together in your cart, even the checkout girl at Home Depot knows you’ve got problems.
9) The Dreadmill
Running on a treadmill in a gym is about as fun as . . . well, as fun as being jerked around by March and her fickle, fickle ways.
10) Did we mention we’re cold??
And so over it. Summer is our time to shine. Bring on the flip-flops, please. Or, at the very least, lose the freezing temps.
But it’s not all moaning and groaning, there is one thing we both LOVE about March:
March Madness
The drama, the brackets, the Cinderella stories, we love it all! But like the rest of March, it comes with a punch.
And this year has been no exception. If your brackets aren’t already in the recycling bin like ours, we need to talk, because you clearly have some connections we might find useful.
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Here’s hoping Spring weather truly is right around the corner.
Please don’t fool us April.
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The schizo wardrobe gets me. I want it to decide already. Inevitably I’m stuck one day wearing shorts with glaringly white legs because after so many weeks on end of freezing weather, all of a sudden the next day is in the 70s. WTH “spring?”
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And now I have a big sopping pile of snow clothes to wash AGAIN. Ellen
The Sisterhood recently posted..10 Reasons March Makes Us Stabby
The older I get the more time changes mess with me and I get CRANKY!
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This weather and time change is making everyone cranky. The internet needs a funny bone adjustment. Ellen
The Sisterhood recently posted..10 Reasons March Makes Us Stabby
Hilarious! LOVE this post. Calendar clustermuck and Dreadmill….Bwahahahah!
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Nothing is funnier than made-up words. Ellen
The Sisterhood recently posted..10 Reasons March Makes Us Stabby
I’ve never heard the reference “stabby”. I like it. LOL! And yes – the dreadmill.
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It’s a good Monday when you can learn a new word. 😉 Ellen
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I vote for Mother Nature to be fired. I am with you on the tired of being cold, tired of wearing boots, hats, gloves, and puffy coats.
I’m so glad you did this. I don’t know if I can handle looking at other people’s real spring lists.
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We enjoyed yours too!
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It’s true- st. Patrick’s day is weird. We all dressed up and went to church, but no one was wearing green. I wanted to tell my kids to go pinch people, but I couldn’t bring myself to.
Probably the best path to take in church. 😉 Ellen
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March is rough. It feels like it should be spring but the reality is that it is cold and grey. Let’s hope we’ll see the lamb side of March this week. 🙂
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March has one more week to behave. It’s not looking good so far in the Northeast. Ellen
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Ha ha ha! Seriously, the clothes one alone is enough to drive someone to drink. And that someone is me. Good thing I can blame it on St. Patty’s Day! 😉 Am also a big fan of March Madness and that someecard made me laugh out loud!-Ashley
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Thanks for the laugh this morning! I think I am going to start claiming to be Irish so I can have a legitimate reason to drink whiskey every day! 🙂
Julia @ Mom on the Run x2
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I am stabby this March!! The only silver lining is that I have an awesome winter Easter Dress…I am actually hoping it is kind of cold next Sunday so I can wear it…that in itself is a comment that can only be made in March!
Amen to the wonky wardrobe! The other day, I caught myself in sandals and a long sleeve sweater. Stupid spring…oh and the Benadryl.There is lots of Benadryl in the spring at my house.
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A great post for this snowy day – March makes me stabby too! I need a pedicure and a mojito.
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4 and 10 – COLD BE GONE! I’m so ready…
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I love the title, yeah…great title. the static cling and clothes drive me mad too.
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Crazy Holidays and the dread of working out for summer…def SpringFun Killers ;P
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Stabby! I love it. I don’t blame you for being grumpy. At least we have had a few spring moments here in the Pac NW. I hear ya on not liking early Easter!
Stabby is one of my favorite colorful words. So, right there, you have a winner. The rest? Yes, yes and yes. March, like the last few weeks of pregnancy, feels like it will never end. Like, it will be perpetually March and, even though we know that’s not true, it still does not make it any less tolerable. And, I’m not a sports girl so my joy-suck is at Defcon 5.
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See? And joy-suck is one of my favorite colorful words! Erin
Y’all are just too funny! I’d probably get in a heap of trouble if I admitted to you that I live in sunny South Florida where everyone is walking around in their bathing suits this week, huh?? But hey, we DO have to battle the mosquitoes…..
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Seasons, time change, weird holidays and March madness? All makes me glad I live in a tropical country. 🙂
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The snow gear. I had stupidly washed it all to put away and we got hit with a bunch of snow (and a snow day) on Monday.
Worse than a technical foul.
ha ha. March has always been my least favorite month… For all those and many other reasons.
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You make a compelling argument to go straight from February to April, now let’s make that happen in 2014.
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Typing up the petition now. 😉 Ellen
For what it’s worth- I live in sunny SoCal so we don’t have all the extrmes of March that you have but it still is a bit sucky over here as well. It’s still cold here (for SoCal) but I have to drive by the beach every day and listen to my kids ask “When are we going to be able to go to the beach? it’s not that cold. We will wear our wetsuits. We’ll just play in the sand.” Yes, you have no sympathy, but listening to your kids repeat any question over and over is annoying. And they are incapable of “just playing in the sand.”
Don’t forget that most of their warddrobe is summer based so its a constant fight to get them to bring a jacket anywhere or, god forbid, wear long sleeves. And the time change? I feel like it’s constantly 6:15 before I even realized I’m supposed to be making dinner. Flag football, t-ball and basketball are overlapping. And let’s throw in the fact that March tends to be a low point in morale anyway and I’m sooo ready for April… or June;)
Vicky
No matter the geographical location, March bites.
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If it makes you feel any better, we can’t get our kids to wear coats either and we are talking about 35 degree temps. WTH? Ellen
OMG I HATE MARCH! I even did my own post about it because aside from the obvious something shitty always happens! (ie. breaking my hand last year; my dog nearly dying this year.)
@#$^ you March!
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