- Waking up to complete darkness
- Eating dinner in complete darkness
- Darkness
- The kids wanting to play outside, but it’s dark
- The kids expecting their brilliant and crafty mother to have a day’s worth of fun, indoor activities at the ready
- Having no choice but to offer play-doh as a craft option and then spending three days watching it ball up and dry so I can pick it off each carpet fibre individually
- My Mom sending me “easy do-it-yourself play-doh recipes”
- Scraping the car with my wet mitten because the scraper is hanging from its assigned hook in the garage
- Hot chocolate burning my tongue, over-marshmallowing and not being able to enunciate anything for ten minutes
- Cooling tongue on metal pole
- Wanting to warm up in the hot-tub but not being courageous enough to make the trek through three feet of snow to get to it
- Being invited to watch someone’s 5am hockey game
- Eating seven Christmas meals on the same day and having no other food in the house for a week because the store is closed due to special holiday hours. Leftover fruitcake.
- Winter weight gain, winter guilt about said weight gain, eating out of frustration–in the dark, because it’s dark
- Being storm stayed while visiting someone who does not have kids of their own
- Knowing I have to get out of bed but the air out there, oh so cold.
- Mostly re-runs on t.v.
- Playdates—applies to all seasons, but in darkness?
- Drivers who make it their life’s mission to find me and spray me with sludge
- An ice cold beer just doesn’t taste the same
