NOT {Wordless Wednesday}

It's supposed to be WORDless Wednesday here...but really...

Can we talk about Spring for a little bit?

I just want to pretend that it's right about the corner, 

as our "weather-predicting groundhog" indicated this morning.

  

They call him a "Prognosticator"...someone who prophesies.

I'm pretty sure he's of the rodent family, which if you ask me, is about the farthest thing from wise and discerning as you can get.  But, just this once, I'd like to think he has heard a word from the Lord. 

Please be true, please be true...

While my kids are still sleeping through their SECOND DAY off of school... 

{I am pretty sure the yellow bus could have found a way to get them there today.  

I vote we move towards a 3 hour delay and NOT a cancellation}

I am listening to the ice dripping on my roof 

{another indication that the roads MUST be melting too}

and thinking about things like THIS:

 and this

and these...

SIGH....

Oh please, wise rodent, please say you have heard a word from the Lord this morning...

Perhaps this is the right time to introduce my kids

 to the movie named after this day..

"A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again."

How very fitting.

I'm sick...

I've got it bad.  Every year about this time I get a case of the same thing.  And, without a doubt, this year it has hit harder and more fierce.  It started about two weeks ago. 

It's name...SPRING FEVER.  And I have it bad.

It probably has something to do with the black snow that is right outside my window.  I just want it to go away so I can see if there is still grass underneath.  I NEED TO SEE SOME GREEN!  It may just be time for me to head to the local nursery and buy a new plant or two.  The best thing about today is that it's raining...which means the snow will melt a little and I might actually see my yard again soon!

Is it just me, or does everyone feel happy with something new?  (I know, someone reading wants to insert a sermon here about how only God can make us truly happy, and with Him we don't need anything else.  I know.  But I'm not talking about eternal, deep-in-your-heart joy...I'm talking about "If I don't see a little Spring or if I don't do something different around this house I'm going to LOSE IT")   

The other day I put a stool that was in one room into another room....and it felt new (even though it wasn't). 

(And I bought a new book...."The FIND"...geared me up for some Spring bargains)

This morning I washed and folded my dishtowels. Bor-ing!  Yes, but something about a pretty dishtowel makes my kitchen feel "new". 

It doesn't take much to change my attitude...it doesn't even take me going to Target. Usually all it takes is a pair of "fresh eyes" to see what I already have and how I can move it around to make it "new".

Don't get me wrong...I'm all for an extreme home makeover or a little shopping therapy....but when the budget doesn't allow it, and your insides are screaming for a little change, something sitting in another room may just need to be moved around a little.

I think the cat is feeling Spring Fever, too.  She has seriously followed me around all day WHINING...maybe she has a case of something else...something that involves male cats. 

But whatever it is, she's got it bad, too! 

WE ALL WANT OUT!