Every year at about this time I start getting antsy for Spring. Apparently it doesn’t matter if we have a freezing cold winter with endless snow and ice, or fairly mild temperatures and minimal white outs. By the last couple of weeks of January I’m done with winter and ready to move on!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays! Thanksgiving left me chubby. Christmas left me smelling good in my new jammies. New Year’s left me with a mess of confetti, and party hats… Honestly I just want to go outside and breathe in the clean scent of warm potting soil. Alas it’s January 25th and the only organic smell whiffing up my sniffer are those from ancient potatoes which have sprouted arms in my veggie bin while I was busy staring out my window yearning for signs of Spring.
How do you best survive the weeks between New Year’s Day and when the crocuses begin to polka dot your yards with their brilliant yellow and purple faces?
Peace and Joy!
annishelton 
So so soon, the new season will come, and new things will be birthed. the trees will have new leaves and the flowers will be planted and all the dead-like things will come alive once again.
Seed catalogs; a walk through the Butterfly House or Botanical Garden.. but mainly by playing board games and watching dumb movies 🙂
Love you!
Anni, I make a list of all of the things that I need to do IN my house that I won’t want to be doing when the weather outside is lovely! Then I realize that if I stay really busy with those things, I’ll be totally ready for the nice weather days! But first I pray over that list and ask the Holy Spirit to show me which things are really important to get done and which things are not! Before I know it, it’s SPRING! Of course in Syracuse that could mean it’s the first week of June! 🙂
Yes….. let this winter pass and the springtime begin….. a new season dawning….. Amen!