Happy First Day of Spring!
I’m kinda glad it’s “official”, aren’t you?! Anika sincerely believes that the weather (and life in general, really) will be dramatically different, now that the calendar says it’s spring.
We’re celebrating.
We went for the first stroller ride of the season.
We played on the play structure, and Kaylia ran through a snow drift in her flip flops.
And we ended up at the lake.
We decided to truly celebrate spring by practicing the fine art of jumping pictures.
And I’ve been thinking about soaking it all in. Oh, that smell in the air. It smells like spring, and evergreen trees. The sun is so warm, and Kaylia’s toes are so bare. These days, it’s good just to be alive.
I am so, so thankful that my “job” involves teaching my girlies to love spring. We play in the sun, and I try to teach them to notice. To slow down, and notice the little things, like the smell and the way something feels, and all the little things that are so easy to take for granted.
I loved this post about learning to slow down to notice, and to fully live:
“The frogs have returned, the frogs and their song.
Why does the trilling in the throat of a frog do this wondrous thing inside of me?….
That sound.
A symphony of sound, trilling low and deep, fills the spaces between the trees, lifts us too.
It is like the water, a looking glass of trunks and limbs, like the water itself croons.
With the everyday eyes, I can’t see the singers at all. It takes time for eyes to adjust to stillness, and only the slow really see….”
I want to have eyes that adjust to stillness. I want to truly see spring with all of its wonder and beauty.
It’s time to go slow, and leave behind “everyday eyes”!
Ordinary Days 