So how is Florida I feel like that's one of the first questions everybody asks me, especially since we moved here in the middle of the summer, and basically what I have to say is that it really isn't that bad. Of course I moved from Toledo to Columbus to Florida and there were plenty of days in Toledo where it would be 90° and 90 percent humidity. I guess what I'm really trying to say is I don't really feel that big of a difference if anything I really truly love the fact that it can rain and literally still be sunny out or that it's NOT dark and cloudy very often or for very long. All of these observations are general since we've only lived here for a couple of months but they seem to be true, which is great.
Just a balmy 80 degree day on November 5th.
The only thing thus far that I can honestly say has been disappointing is how long it has been hot! I guess there is a bunch of weather fluctuations this year because of El Niño. Of course there is! Haha I just lived through two polar vortexes so now Mother Nature is trying to fry my brains. Knowing that it's been unseasonably warm does make me feel better though. I'm sad we didn't get a more gradual cool down. Instead it's been hot, hot, hot then coooool then hot again. Back and forth- no in between. The first day of December I overhead that it was the hottest it's ever been since like 1930! Wow. Like I said as long as it isn't like this all 4-5 years we are here. The temperate days though are so amazing! It's so nice to just put on average clothes and go be outside while the kids play. Davie has already acclimated to the warmth here in Florida. The other day he needed to wear pants instead of shorts. He asked why and when I told because it was chilly outside (not really 60/70ish degrees) he said "I don't like it when it's cold!".
This was December 23rd. Still HOT.
The other thing I have been quite pleasantly surprised about is bugs. There really aren't as many bugs as I thought there were. (Insert me imagining bugs of all kinds and sizes swarming... everywhere... all the time and me freaking out a little) More than other places sure but not all the nasty swarms I was imagining. I feel like we get a lot of little fruit fly type bugs in the house. More than I have ever had before and it's weird because I'm pretty sure they aren't coming from fruits we have brought in. Another topic I was nervous about was spiders. I seriously haven't hardly seen any spiders. Maybe I'll get my chance (please no!) but there aren't a lot of those either. To be fair the bugs in the house came in through our sliding glass door that (whoops) the builder didn't put a brush guard on. So they were just walkin' in! Yeaaaa, as soon as we figured that out we called the builder ASAP. Thankfully it was an easy fix and it immediately stopped the bugs.
Lizard in my bug trap!
There are however a TON of little lizards. And I like these lizards, I know they eat our bugs and they are pretty much harmless (not to mention kind of cute). The lizards still startle me every now and then when I walk to or from the house and they run in front of me but they never run towards you... or at least not yet! Either way they are welcome in my book.
Because of the warm weather I have gotten rid of more of my clothes than I had originally planned. I've been trying to get rid of my excess stuff for over a year now. And you know what is both amazing AND really sad? I have literally driven large garbage bags of "stuff" to the second hand stores and I haven't missed a SINGLE thing. I know getting rid of my warmer clothing might sound rash, but I figure most of it is already 6+ years old, we won't be visiting Idaho as much once Miss Macy turns 2, and by the time we do move somewhere that might be colder David will be making more money. So in the meantime it just didn't make sense to me to keep all my warm "stuff". A lot of it I didn't really even use in Ohio when it did snow so it's really not a big deal.
For those of you who know David he has adjusted really well to the heat. In fact the other day he basically said that he never thought he could ever live in a place that didn't have an actual winter, but after this winter he has completely changed his mind. He NEVER has to wake up earlier to scrape ice off his windows or shovel snow or so that he will have more time to drive if the snow is on the road. He's been super surprised with this conclusion of his and when he told me I think it blew my mind a little. I knew that while we lived here he would be a good sport because his job it great and so is our house and our ward and lots of other things. However him admitting to not caring if we ever move back to a place that gets cold and snows was completely shocking. I'm ok with that! So for now it is definitely- Good-bye winter!
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