For years, if you asked me my least favorite month, I would have said April. It’s rainy, it’s not quite summer, not quite spring. Nothing exciting happens in April. It’s blah. However, in recent days, as I await the month of April to arrive, I have been reconsidering my April opinion.
First, the Masters, my favorite golf major takes place in April. The Final Four and NCAA Championship game are played in April. Baseball season starts in April. All in all, a great month for sport.
Aside from the rain, the weather is nice. It’s nice to get to phase out the heavy winter coats for the lighter spring coats and denim jackets. It’s also nice that the sun doesn’t set at 5pm anymore and it’s daylight when I walk to work or when we got out after 6pm. Also, people start to plan flowers in all the little boxes around the trees on our blocks and it starts to get pretty again. So, there are clearly worse weather months-like August, don’t get me started on August!
So, I think I’ve reconsidered and am going to take April off the worst month in the year list and give it the credit it deserves. I apologize, April, for thinking so poorly of you in the past and here’s to a great 2009 together!
