ToT: Favorite Season

ToT Topic: What is your favorite season? Why/what makes you like it the most? Would you ever want to live where weather would be like that particular season year-round?

It's so funny how the more I think about something, the more I can change the way I feel about it. I could have a few different answers for this. I'm one of those people that likes having all four seasons-unless winter hangs on forever-which it can do in Indiana. If you would have asked me this answer last week, I would have said my favorite season is fall.  Hands down.  I love getting a break from the sweltering heat and humidity of summer, when those first few cool mornings and evenings occur in the fall.  I like the crunch of the leaves, the color in the trees, and the smell of cinnamon and apples.  I'm not sure why, but cinnamon and apples always remind me of fall.  My birthday is in the fall, so that is probably why I grew up loving the fall. I'm a football fan, so I like the fall because football season starts.  I love sitting around a warm fire on a cool fall night, or having a warm bowl of chili.  I enjoy going to the apple orchard and pumpkin patch with my family in the fall.  It's a time when my family gets together often because we have a lot of fall birthdays in the family.

Those are the reasons fall is one of my favorite seasons, but now I truly think I could find reasons to make each season my favorite (except maybe for winter-I'm still having hard feelings over that one). I love the spring flowers, and being able to get outside and enjoy seeing my kids run off steam outside (rather than driving everyone crazy running of steam in the house).  I love to hear the birds chirping in the spring (until daylight savings, and then the chirping is annoying because it's so freaking early in the morning, and they all seem to live in a tree outside of my bedroom window). It's not too hot, so being outside is actually enjoyable.  The only downfall is that sometimes winter can creep over into spring, and it can snow here as late as May.  Those are springs that I do not enjoy.  Spring call also be very, very rainy, and that is sometimes a bummer, too.  I also do not enjoy the thunderstorms that come with spring. As for summer, what can I say? I love summer. I do not enjoy swimming in mild temperatures.  Swimming for me is only enjoyable when it is hot outside. So, I love swimming on hot summer days.  I love having ice cream treats after dinner as well as walks around the neighborhood. I do not however enjoy the humidity and 100 degree days of summer.  I can not stand being around my whiny, hot kids.  I feel in some ways that summer can almost trap us inside the house as much as winter if it's too dang hot outside. Winter. Okay, honestly, there are a couple things that I do like about winter.  I do like the first substantial snow fall we get that we can play in.  I like watching my kids sled down our front lawn, attempt to build snowmen, and have snow ball fights.  It's such a treat to come in and have steaming cups of hot chocolate and marshmallows. Let's not forget Christmas either.  Those are the things I like about winter. Oh, and I like running in the cold.  There. I said it. I would much, much, prefer running in the cold than running in the heat.  So, if you ask me right now, I would say I like each of the seasons for different reasons. I like that they change, and I don't (usually) have to live in the same season for more than a few months at a time.  If, however, you ask me tomorrow, I might just say, my favorite season is fall. :)