Embracing Spring

I love living in a place where we have all four distinct seasons. I love the changing of the seasons and all the new little adventures each season brings. I love summer and fall and I even love winter (at least the first few months of it)! But spring? Well, let's just say that spring hasn't always been my favorite season. It's not that I really dislike spring it's just that it's not my favorite. Truth be told that once I am finished with winter I would be just as happy moving straight on into summer! But that's not how it works and so this year I have decided to embrace spring. So I made sure that we all have a good pair of rain boots and a rain coat and we are getting out and enjoying the wet, muddy goodness that spring has to offer! We are blowing bubbles (because it's never to early to start), playing on the swing set, riding bikes (and other assorted scooters and cars), kicking balls, and our very favorite has become jumping in puddles (both water and mud)! It has actually been quite fun watching Eli really discovering the outside (since he was really too little to fully appreciate it last year). One day while Joe was raking our yard the kids and I had a blast throwing the last chunks of snow (from our massive snow pile) out into the road, smashing the snow with our boots, and watching the last (hopefully) of winter melt into the ground! Yes, I am embracing spring (I even let Eli touch his first worm this morning)! But don't get me wrong, I think I'm still ready for summer!:)