Cabin fever.

We have it.

The weather has finally broken, and the kids and I can’t wait to get outside and stretch our limbs after a cold Ohio winter.

Working from home usually tethers me to a tight schedule of calls jam packed into nap times and during our favorite kid-occupying TV shows, but it’s hard to not be called outside where the breeze is mild and the grass is looking…green…ish. Okay, it’s still brown and horrible-looking, but it’s warm, people!

Leaving the house has never been an easy task. A diaper bag full of Huggies Little Movers diapers, snacks, extra clothes, extra extra clothes, drinks, cell phone, wet wipes…I mean, my purse has grown to the size of a carry-on.

But, it’s worth it.

We headed into town, ate lunch outside our favorite deli, peeked in shop windows, and then ducked into our favorite cupcake place.

Cell phone? What’s a cell phone? We’ve been cut off from technology for hours just wandering the streets, letting the sun touch us, which, thank god, because I was getting to be so pale you could see the platelets moving about in my veins.

It was not attractive.

No leaky diapers (seriously, thanks Huggies! I’ve been doing this so long, changing are a blur), no deadlines, no whining.

We all just stumble around, giddy from the sunshine. It’s moments like those that make parenting  feel like the easiest thing in the world.

Until tomorrow, when it rains when a cold front comes through, and we’re stuck inside watching Tom & Jerry reruns and fighting about who touched whose eye with their finger.

Sigh, that almost never gets old.

- Brittany, Barefoot Foodie