It's so fun to have an entire week off for Spring Break and not to have weather that beckons children outside and even punishes them if they DO venture out! Well, such was the case around the Preston School District April 4-8. By Friday, when we awoke to yet another storm, I was about to go bananas! During our morning paper route, the D.J. on the radio relayed the bleak weather forecast and then cheerfully added, "Merry Christmas!" Suddenly I had a stroke of genius! It was so close to Christ's REAL birthday! Why not celebrate? It didn't take much to talk the kids into celebrating April Christmas. They drew names and we went to town so they could buy gifts for each other, we made Christmas candy (English Toffee), listened to Christmas music all day, ate our traditional Christmas Eve dinner and even took a secret treat to some neighbors.
Santa's helper came in the night and filled our stockings too! What fun! And best of all- at least for that day-it made the snow seem like a welcome guest instead of just another bad trick to foul up our Spring Break!
Spring Break wouldn't have been a complete bust even if we hadn't thought of celebrating April Christmas. (We did get to ride the bus to Hyrum to see my sister Sharlee and play with cousins all day Wednesday and then met them again the next day in Logan for Baby Animal Days at a historic farm there. We got rained & snowed out, but found shelter back at Sharlee's and played some more, ate the lunches we'd packed, had hot chocolate and watched movies until the storm passed. We went to dinner with Jeff and to "Hop" at the movie theater too.) But, as it happened, I believe it turned out to be our most memorable Spring Breaks yet!
