Winting

Winting: the gray, muddy, bland, cold, yucky days that exist between winter and spring.

Each year we go to extreme lengths to survive Winting.

Like ordering pizza online and watching the status of our pizza through the ordering, prepping, baking, and delivering phases as if they were monumental accomplishments.

Like painting toenails and going barefoot to bring a little color to the murky, muddy, brown world that surrounds us.

Like talking about our garden hopes while we chop vegetables for our weekly belly-warming stew.

Like organizing, planning for, and ordering the seeds for our future garden which is, sadly, months away.


And just for kicks and giggles, we all went in for dental cleanings.

Which led us to the orthodontist to fit Hyrum for a retainer to fix his underbite and protect his teeth that were crashing together with every bite. He thought it was a bit fun being picked up by his ears and seeing the skeleton of his face.

Which then led us back to the dentist to have two of Hyrum's baby teeth pulled because they were long overdue and his permanent teeth were coming in through his gums. Those baby roots were not dissolving at all like they were supposed to (much like Levi's baby teeth) and when the dentist got them out we were shocked to see the length of the root was longer that the actual tooth. Unfortunately, this seems be the case for two other teeth but since they are not in as critical of a state as the first two we will wait until next Winting to have them pulled, if necessary.