{"id":10378,"date":"2016-03-15T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:47:04","slug":"the-season-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/the-season-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Spring. When the flowers begin to bud and the leaves begin to pop back out on the trees! Unless you live in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/home-south-florida\/\">Florida<\/a>. And then Spring is when everything dies. And the falling leaves mix with the scattered rains and you get leafy pulp mush.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0px; width: 100%; background: #f8f8f8;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/0BJ1Tjtvs-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to #springtime in #Florida, when everything dies&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Melissa Roy (@beyondmommying) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2015-03-09T19:04:41+00:00\">Mar 9, 2015 at 12:04pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a phenomenon I first experienced during my college days in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/jacksonville-florida-2\/\">Jacksonville<\/a> when each &#8220;spring&#8221; I would trudge through the muck (all yucky and brown&#8211; thank you Doodle and his <em>Duck in the Truck<\/em>\u00a0obsession!). It was weird.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/07\/denver-colorado\/\">Colorado<\/a>, where the leaves change beautiful colors and fall off the trees in the Fall, as they should. And my first February and March in Florida was miserable! \u00a0And not that Colorado is\u00a0<em>that<\/em> much better since it can go from this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1.jpg\" alt=\"colorado spring\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-600x556.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-270x250.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-768x712.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-1024x950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring1-1000x927.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2.jpg\" alt=\"colorado spring\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-300x391.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-600x783.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-192x250.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring2-1000x1305.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and back to this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3.jpg\" alt=\"colorado spring\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-300x316.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-600x632.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-238x250.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-768x808.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/colorado-spring3-1000x1053.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>in just a few days during the springtime, but at least the seasons do change and things happen at the appropriate times!<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, the only place we&#8217;ve ever lived with a &#8220;real&#8221;\u00a0Spring was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/dublin-ireland\/\">Dublin<\/a> where, though the weather would stay cool, flowers bloomed in the early spring as everything came back alive in colorful splendor!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1.jpg\" alt=\"dublin spring1\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-600x465.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-323x250.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-1000x774.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dublin-spring1-390x302.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1944px) 100vw, 1944px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember growing up, Spring being a time or excitement as the weather began to warm up (between snow storms) and things began to grow, the new life that you expect in Spring. \u00a0But in Florida, Spring is the messy time when everything is just gross and messy and not much fun!<\/p>\n<p>Plus it is so hard to teach children about seasons when you live in a place that has Messy, Hot, Less Hot and Mildly Hot. \u00a0At least we are fortunate that we&#8217;ve gotten\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/oh-the-places-weve-been\/\">travel a lot<\/a> and see the seasons all over the world but it would be nice to have a real spring again!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This post is part of a blog hop from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1607366226196679\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogs &amp; Business: Moms Who Do It All<\/a>. Check out some of the other awesome blogs participating:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailymomtivity.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Momtivity<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofbetterblogging.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Better Blogging<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thejessiek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Jessie K<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/fightingforfitness.me\/ target=\">Fighting for Fitness<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingbutterflies.com\" target=\"_blank\">Building Butterflies<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortybyfortyfitness.com\" target=\"_blank\">Forty by Forty Fitness<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akreativewhim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Kreative Whim<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/womenwinningonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Women Winning Online<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/hometownbetty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hometown Betty<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champagneandcheerios.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Champagne and Cheerios<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/Bisforbookworm.com \" target=\"_blank\">B is for Bookworm<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/aileencooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aileen Cooks<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/cottonnkandi.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Cotton Kandi Life<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Mommying<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homemaidsimple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Home Maid Simple<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tottotgoose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tot Tot Goose<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thriftyguardian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thrifty Guardian<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/novicemommy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diary of a New Mommy<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/mrsandmomma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mrs and Momma<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueeyedbabies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Eyed Babies<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittletourist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Little Tourist<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromdesignertodiapers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Designer to Diapers<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mommymemoriesandmouseears.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mommy, Memories and Mouse Ears<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmondkids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Redmond Kids<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/cheerandcherry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheer and Cherry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Spring. 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