What I Learned in February

It was kind of a slow month around here.  There was the day to day frenzy, but the month was slow as far as surprising circumstances or momentous occasions.  That’s OK.  My learning list is a bit short this month, and that’s OK too.

• Don’t fix what isn’t broken.  Stick to the one haircut you know while cutting your youngest child’s hair.  If you happen to be cutting your youngest child’s hair and your intuition tells you that you may have just made a mistake, the best thing is to abandon!  Go back to the old hair cut even if a chunk of hair is missing.  Currently Mr. Trouble on Feet is sporting hair that looks FANTASTIC in the front (my best job ever!) and absolutely horrible in the back.  It’s so horrible it’s comical.  He’s heard us discuss it so much that he now just walks up to people and tells them, “Me hair nice in front, but the back is trouble.  Me mom ruin it.”  
• I learned to use the snowblower!  This is actually a big deal.  Dr. Peds was in Texas during our last snowstorm, and I was in charge of digging us out. That thing is a BEAST, I’m telling you.  It was utterly exhausting, but it would have been so time consuming  to hand shovel so much snow.  I managed to get the driveway and all the sidewalks cleared out without breaking anything or crunching anything up.  (Thankfully my neighbor half way down the street came over to help with on tricky sidewalk that I couldn’t quite get the hang of).
• Wool mittens might not be waterproof, but they are amazingly water repellant.
• Never under estimate the joy of a three year old when you hand him a package of super hero and Thomas the Train underwear.