You know it's time for winter to end when...

 1) You're 32 weeks pregnant and you can baaaarrrley zip up your good down jacket....(we had SNOW this morning peeps! March 19th!) Granted you have a couple of layers on beneath the jacket but STILL, you decide it is now officially time for spring warmth to return!

 2) Your kid is running a 101 temp, has a snotty nose and a cough and you still let them go outside and hammer nails with Dad cause cabin fever has set in hard! (don't look too hard below his nose, yes that's probably snot...)

 3) okay this is just another cute kid pic, hammering away, not really another reason for winter to end....

 4) AND another cute kid and Dad pic...like father like son! Except father has enough sense to wear a beanie, and son obviously has NOT.

5) And yes, not only do you let him go outside in the frigid temps, you let him slosh around in the huge mud puddles that now look like lakes in your front yard. (Granted, we have a pretty good rain boot/rain pants/velcro system where, believe it or not, he stays dry as can be. I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't had taken his boots off and felt his dry socks with my own hands....)






6)You find yourself trapped inside your rather small house with a gallon pot of pea soup that is oh so healthy and good for your sickly family, (thanks to your mother in law,) but also oh so, ummm, gas producing. Especially with a pregnant mama, a papa with a fast metabolism, and a little boy who just love to fart in  general....uggh, someone crack a window....

7) You realize you've made "smoothie treats"(as known by Forrest,) out of the usual frozen fruit, etc EVERY weekend for the last month possibly as a subconscious effort to make the rain STOP. Somehow frozen smoothies when your high is 37 degrees is just not the same.

8)You find yourself looking longingly at the cheap Mexico vacations being advertised on your spam and lust over the sun loving couple in bathing suits despite your current whale like proportions at 8 months pregnant. 8 months pregnant in a bathing suit WOULD be worth the sun you decide....

9) Your entire family has had a steady string of winter bugs, and you currently have a voice that sounds somewhere in between Oscar the Grouch and a pre-pubescent boy. Your medical mind is suddenly convinced that YES rain does cause sickness and that Mexican HOT vacation is just what the doctor ordered...

10)You go through all the above thoughts and decide to take a look at the forecast, hoping for SOME glimmer of sunshine, and you see.......

NWS Eureka, CA  Point Forecast: Willow Creek CA  40.94°N 123.62°W (Elev. 600 ft)

Mobile Weather Information | En Español Last Update: 2:44 pm PDT Mar 19, 2011 Forecast Valid: 10pm PDT Mar 19, 2011-6pm PDT Mar 26, 2011

Tonight Rain Lo 36 °F

Sunday Rain Hi 45 °F

Sunday Night Showers Likely Lo 35 °F

Monday Showers Likely Hi 50 °F

Monday Night Chance Showers Lo 38 °F

Tuesday Chance Showers Hi 53 °F

Tuesday Night Rain Likely Lo 40 °F

Wednesday Rain Likely Hi 52 °F Wednesday Night Rain Likely Lo 42 °F