Spring

A long time ago, I used to think that summer was my favorite season.  Now, I think I enjoy spring much more than summer.  Spring has new life blossoming around you with tulips and crocuses and buds all over the trees.  The weather is soothing like the calm after a big storm.  It say wake up — here I am.  The gray, cold, and snow of winter are behind us and now look the mud is like a spa treatment signaling that outside play and vacations are on the way.  Just yesterday the duffer and I were exploring the woods in front of my house and he tried to pick up the largest stick on the path.  He pulled and pulled for about a minute which is probably like an hour in adult time.  Upon realizing it was too big, he found a smaller stick to play with for the rest of the walk.  The whole walk maybe took twenty minutes, but it was lovely to not know exactly how long we were outside because it was warm enough to frolic with the dogs and soak up the sun.  Officially, spring will not be here for a bit and more than likely we will still get one more doozy of a storm, but I am enjoying feeling like my battery is recharged and ready to move forward with all that is to come.

April in Vermont…

is a crapshoot — like Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates.  Just last week, it was fifty degrees.  Today, we have a light dusting of snow.  Luckily, the sun has started to light up the sky with cornflower blue instead of the sludge gray that has been lingering over the course of the last week.  Unfortunately, sickness is still rampant in our household.  My husband finally is better, but now my son is out sick from school with his first ear infection and other ailments.  Really, my son is a big golf fan and didn’t want to miss out on the first day of the Masters.  He is really routing for Sergio to take it all this year and wanted to make sure he could see his opening round.  Interestingly, his dad who is a huge golf fan is at work while mom is home with him.  We are hoping to get better in the next day or so because we have our first field trip to a local aquarium this Saturday.  The biggest compliment that my husband and I received this past week was our son’s pediatrician telling us that she was thankful for our positive attitudes around sickness because according to her not all parents are as understanding.  Our theory is it is what it is.  Getting upset about it doesn’t really change what is happening for our son so why use that energy.  On another note, I had a huge flashback to my youth when my local pharmacist handed me the cotton candy colored exilir that my mom once gave my sister in a plastic vial.  It is funny the way things move full circle as the crocuses break through the hard earth and the ducks return to the outskirts of the pond in hopes that the ice will melt soon.