Accepting Responsibility

Its time I take responsibility for this year's Polar Vortex.

We enjoyed a perpetual spring in Venezuela until we left abruptly in October, when we were blessed with a beautiful Virginia fall.  I love fall, with its cozy drinks, sudden chills and feeling of new beginnings.  Once we learned that we would move to Indonesia this year, our family made a few more weather plans.

My girls made firm plans for heavy snow over the winter.  Mother Nature delivered in force!  So well did she follow through that our family became nervous.  We needed to drive away from Virginia on the last day of school - what if too many snow days pushed that last day back?  Lucky for us, Arlington received many big piles of snow but stayed firm on their last day of school.

Once the snow melted, we entered into a beautiful Virginia spring.  Seriously, guys - Virginia is beautiful.  We spent our weekends at softball games and soccer matches, and filled in the holes with bike rides and hikes.

 And we enjoyed our spring so much that we just made plans for it to stick around.  We drove to the Midwest in the middle of June, where normally we would spend the next 6 weeks as sweaty, sticky messes.  July in St. Louis offers plenty of sunshine and humidity, but we put in our request for a long spring.  So we have seen very little pooltime this summer, and have suffered through our ice-cream runs in chilly weather.

But it seems our luck has run out.  In this, our last week in the states, the temperatures are supposed to hit the upper 90s.  Its okay - one week of full-on Midwestern summer will do our bodies good.