Spring Time

I knew when I started this whole blogging thing that it was going to be TIME consuming. I have all these great ideas for posts, but before I know it, all this TIME has gone by and now it's been more than two months since I posted anything.

Last TIME I posted it was still Winter TIME (technically. I think that was one of the weeks when it was really, really warm here). Then I went out of town a few times, life got crazy (as it usually does) and I kind of lost track of TIME. Then the whole Swine Flu thing came up, my grandbabies were sick with Influenza A, and I was starting to get just the tiniest bit anxious (read: trying not to freak out). Then wednesday when I left my neighborhood to run to the store for my daughter, I saw this

And it touched my heart, and reminded me that it's SPRING TIME!! A time for renewal, and new birth. There was that mama duck with her little babies following her as they crossed the street right in front of me, and suddenly things didn't seem so scary anymore. I could stop and put things in perspective, and realize that everything was going to be OK. So I picked up the groceries for Kelli and took them to her house, then showed Tyler the picture of the mama duck with her babies. It made her smile, and laugh, and that made me smile and laugh, and then everything was all right with the world, in spite of the stupid piggy flu!

And what would SPRING TIME be without pictures of cute little girls in their Easter dresses? (Even though they had pretty much had enough of Easter by the time these pictures were taken, so to see happier girls in their Easter dresses, go here).

I am grateful for SPRING, and for cute little girls in their Easter dresses. And I'm going to enjoy SPRING TIME because it will probably only be here for another week and then it will be Summer!