i just love spring!!!

As I type, it's raining outside, I can hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance from the awesome storm that just passed - the air has cooled and it smells like rain! The trees glow, the flowers are still wet with rain and ~ my hair is frizzed and there is mud everywhere -and I just love it!

If I could change the calendar I would - Spring is when everything begins ~ perfect and new and full of promise, summer is when the sun burns the hottest and shines the brightest, fall is relief from the heat, and oh so beautiful, even as the flowers wilt and the leaves fall, the days are shorter and things slow down - and then winter, breath-taking beauty!! I love the changes and I love that I've gotten to see it begin again and again 43 times ~ I truly enjoy every season while I'm in it - and yet, I am so tickled to see the next season come in, I am hard pressed to pick a favorite, they just all seem to come at just the right time.

I have loved the seasons of my life with that same passion. Spring ~ I loved the newness of the dating phase with my husband, getting to know one another - that season when we were both still so 'perfect' :b !! And then the season of young children - I suppose this would be summer! Busy and crazy sometimes, young children, new careers - definitely a time you could feel the heat - but wow does the sun shine bright in this season - and oh how I miss those days when they were small ~ but even then I knew the days would fly by so I really tried to savor every moment.

Now, I would say I'm seeing signs of fall ~ so many changes, my firstborn married and setting up a home of her own and the reality that leaving home is just on the horizon for the other three. I love the season I am in, and I dearly wish to slow the hands of time, but I know I am headed for another beautiful season - things will be more quiet around here, but it will have its beauty - and I really love the fall....