How to Define Cabin Fever

December was mild.  January was cold and a bit snowy.  The bulk of our snow came in February this year.  In a period of about 8 days we got about 4-5 feet of snow.  It was tough.  But nothing worse than average.  Then, towards the end of the month, it got unseasonably warm, like nearly 70 degrees.  Isaac and Ethan were outside and Bianca and I were seriously contemplating shorts.  We did yard work, raked leaves, and opened up the "tand box" for the Beeth.  

The the heat lasted for only a few days.  The smells of spring wafted in the window and then the windows had to be closed again.  We got a large dump of snow, probably around 10-12 inches followed by another 5-8 inches in a three day period in March and the snow lingered until this week.  But looking out at the swing set, we were very close to "snow out" in the backyard.  Isaac and Ethan were chomping at the bit.  We had a few cold rainy weekends but nothing that was out of the ordinary.  

Then, this week the weather said we'd get a huge storm as I drove home from work on Friday, it looked like it was coming to pass.  Then I woke up this morning to a hard, wet, crust across everything.  It wasn't a lot, maybe 6 inches, but it was so close to water and ice that my back ached just looking at it.  It seemed clear at this point that there was no chance of an outside weekend this weekend.  April 1st, April Fools was a day for snow.  ugh.

That is the very definition of cabin fever--large April snowstorm.  The boys are literally crawling the walls.