{"id":4632,"date":"2014-05-29T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:17:56","slug":"rolling-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/29\/rolling-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0529140739a\"<\/a> I\u2019m not sure why but it seems like every time I have to take Honeybun to school (and Sugarplum and Doodle along for the ride) it rains.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been very lucky this year that we\u2019ve only had to deal with one rainy afternoon at pick-up time but somehow it always rains when I have to do drop-off!<\/p>\n

I real don\u2019t mind being wet from the rain, it\u2019s not much different from being drenched in sweat after doing the school run in 90 degree, 80% humidity weather. And I really shouldn\u2019t complain, I\u2019m much more prepared and equipped than most American moms.\u00a0 Thanks to our time in Dublin, I have all the rain gear: rain coats all around, rain covers for the buggy and umbrellas.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny though because in the 2 \u00bd years I spent walking around Dublin (since we didn\u2019t have a car, I didn\u2019t have a choice) I only got stuck in a downpour a handful of times.\u00a0 For a place that is known for its constant rain, I think that\u2019s pretty good!\u00a0 Sure, I was able to stay in most of the time when the rain was real bad but most of the time there it\u2019s just a spitting rain, rarely heavy.<\/p>\n

\"DSC00065\"\u00a0Still, we had a plastic rain cover for each and every buggy (it was one of our first purchases in Dublin!)\u00a0 And I had multiple raincoats in order to be prepared for any temperature (and to have a spare for when one was still soaked from the last time).\u00a0 And of course we had a myriad of umbrellas.\u00a0 But most of the time the rain covers and coats were used more for warmth than wet protection and the umbrellas hardly ever left the house (it was almost always too windy and you would ultimately end up with an inside out or broken umbrella).<\/p>\n

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Truthfully, here in Florida I do choose to drive in the rain when possible but it\u2019s not really a choice for school drop off for various reasons.\u00a0 For one, on rainy days the line gets much too long and the chances of being tardy increase.\u00a0 I also have two other children that will not tolerate waiting in the looooong line (which sometimes backs up as far as our street).\u00a0 Then there\u2019s the issue of car seats.\u00a0 Honeybun is still in a harnessed car seat and in Hubby\u2019s car she sits behind the driver which means she would have to walk around the car which is generally frowned upon and in my car she can\u2019t unbuckle herself so I\u2019d have to get out to unbuckle her.\u00a0 It\u2019s just not a good option.\u00a0 (Driving to pick-up is never really an option for the same reasons but also because she comes out a different door than the car riders and we don\u2019t have a car pick-up pass).<\/p>\n

The most frustrating part of walking in the rain, though, is definitely the stupidity of drivers.\u00a0 The selfishness in people\u2019s need to get to their destination which is apparently more important than letting me cross in front of them in the pouring rain is astounding. \u00a0I also can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve gotten splashed by cars driving by and their inability to go AROUND the puddles (for a place that gets a billion inches of rain a year, it really is miraculous how insufficient the drainage systems are!)<\/p>\n

Way back in 2011 I posted on Facebook: So glad for rain covers today and the fact that my girls stayed dry while I was getting drenched, not by the rain but by the asshole drivers who didn’t learn from others’ mistakes and one after the other sprayed puddles 10 feet high over the top of me.<\/em><\/p>\n

It also happened earlier this school year, when Doodle was just a little squish, while walking to school pick up.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t raining at the time but a downpour had just finished.\u00a0 And the high temps and humidity made the rain covers a dangerous option (plus, did I mention it wasn\u2019t actually raining?)\u00a0 So a car drives by us WAY too fast and sprays water up and over the top of us.\u00a0 It\u2019s happened before, no big deal except for my sweet little sleepy baby in the bottom seat of the buggy who did not just wet but got covered with disgusting decaying leaves and dirty road water (if only I still had the text I sent hubby after that\u2026probably one of the most colorful things I\u2019ve ever written!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not sure why but it seems like every time I have to take Honeybun to school (and Sugarplum and Doodle along for the ride) it rains.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been very lucky this year that we\u2019ve only had to deal with one rainy afternoon at pick-up time but somehow it always rains when I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}