Yes, we have weather!!

Well, we have been thinking that there is just nothing like the springtime; one day (like Thursday for example) you have a picnic in the back yard, and enjoy the first color you have seen in months and relish that the umbrellas can protect you from something other than rain, and best of all, having children delighted to do yard work just so they can be outside in all the loveliness!

Luckily the next day we got to enjoy an outing to the city, what a blessed event to get out of the house after a week of bleak cloudy skies, not to mention the fact that the kids have been out of school for Spring Break and were restless- there are only so many chores you can do and computer games you can play without the inevitable gloom setting in.

There were 2 whole days of sunshine- so much it almost hurt your eyes, a torture we were ready and willing to take upon us!

Then the white wickedness came in from the north and shared her fury with us..... (insert sad faces)-

We did end up somehow having the Christmas lights, that we never took down on the front porch, turned on just for effect. Kaija played a few Christmas songs on the piano- by default really, and then on Sunday when church was cancelled and we listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on I-tunes it ran through the gamut of CD's and ended up on the Holiday discs. Oh well, it was kind of like Christmas, Joe and I went out in the storm on Saturday to check out the new Menards store in Sedalia and came home, (after a very lengthy stay there and more supplies for household projects) to put up new light fixtures- well not exactly new, we actually purchased them on amazing clearance 2 or 3 years ago- but we finally have places for them to go!! So add a nice warm fire in the fireplace to that and you have a cozy, cold weekend to add to the nice warm days with sunshine! Aahhh, Springtime!! Now I must venture outside to go sledding with Eli- he begged all day yesterday, so I have to go now before the snow melts. I think he has about got the back porch cleared off from throwing snowballs, first at the windows, then onto the shed. Time to freeze, then we will thaw out this afternoon!