Every year around this time I start to get desperate for the winter to end. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I am sick of snow storms and ice. Sick of shovelling and dusting off the car. I hate it when my fingers get so cold they feel frozen. I am done with winter. The snowmen I've been building lately are looking more and more evil ...which is a sure sign. I'm also getting lazy with the entire getting dressed for winter thing and have started leaving the house wearing only a spring ensemble - like it will make it happen faster; as though I am soley responsible for calling the spring back this year by sheer force of will. I am also going to stop eating oatmeal soon since that is clearly a winter breakfast food...

I love the spring. I love the smell of spring, the sound of it and the feel of it on my face. I love watching everything wake up from it's winter sleep, the leaves, the flowers, the birds returning. It fills me up with happy. I love that it will be here in another 6 weeks or so... and I love that it is beginning to feel close enough that I can start to look forward to it's arrival. It's almost time to make mud pies again!

I don't know about you guys but I love the looking forward to part of life so very much. Looking forward to the next time I will feel Spartan's arms encircle my waist and I will breathe him in. Just the thought of it makes me smile. Looking forward to all of the little adventures that make life flow. Looking forward to spending time with friends and the laughter that goes along with it. Looking forward to surprises and the plotting...I don't think that we give enough credit to the "looking forward to" of it all. When you start to enjoy that part of life and acknowledge it- it becomes part of the now. So right now - I am going about the business of seriously looking forward to a great many things.

I am really truly happy... and I'm looking forward to tomorrow ;-) and the day after that and - in particular next Friday... and then all the days that follow. And somewhere along the way the spring will pop up and become part of it all.... which is great because my crocs are proving to be very un -snow worthy...