Things that make me feel spring

I love spring. I know we’re rounding the corner to summer, but I’m giving myself permission to believe it’s still spring for another month – even if the temperatures try to tell me otherwise. In light of my exceeding generosity to myself, I’ve decided to make a list of my favorite spring things – things that really make me feel like I’m living spring.

• Butterflies
• Sound of Music CD – we love to listen to Julie Andrews singing as we clean or anytime we’re blue – that whole CD just makes us happy!
• Anne of Green Gables CD – can’t you just imagine you’re crossing the “white way to light?”
  
• New homeschool supplier catalogs – so much potential in the thought of a new year – sort of like a brand new box of pencils!! Nothing smells sweeter!
• Open windows
• Wildflowers popping up all over the place
• Happy spring frocks – I love the drape of a soft dress – it’s like being set free from the prison of corduroy and wool from the winter
• Bubbles floating past my kitchen window as the kids blow and blow their bubbles (dumping half of it on the sidewalk and driveway)
• The smell of freshly cut grass
• The way my husband obsesses over hummingbird food
• The Mockingbirds that always build a nest around our kitchen windows (this year it’s in the honeysuckle vines)
• Irises in my moms yard
• Chalk murals gracing the driveway
• Outside toys all over the yard – my husband likes to fuss about this – but I love the “kids live here” look
• My new lawnmower. A gift from my mom, dad, sis, and brother. What irony if you knew how much I hated mowing as a child. But I love this little mower, and so do the kids.
• Haircuts on the deck
  
• Bluebirds bringing their fledglings up to the water bath for a quick dip
• Walking out my front door and having a zillion hummingbirds nearly embed their beak in my temple. Those little suckers are serious about getting to their food.
• The tadpoles that are now living in my favorite back deck water fountain bowl. It’s amazing how nothing is sacred in the homeschoolers home. These were a gift from Nanny and Papa’s Mary pond, but as we did some research on tadpoles, we discovered that these little suckers take 2 years to turn into frogs. Good grief! Now what? They’ve all been named! This is a post unto itself – more details later!!!
  
• The potential of a new garden, so pretty and green with no weeds growing in it….yet!