Spring

Spring - so close, yet so far away.  In a way, it reminds me of the last month of pregnancy with how much we (living up North) anticipate it.  I think my main reason for this post is to somehow bring on the Spring to this cold place on Earth, if not in reality than at least in my head. :)  I even changed the blog so it would remind me of the beautiful Spring to come.  Everyone here knows that we have WAYS to go until our snow starts to melt and yet, I am already dreaming of the coming Spring.  The only indicator to it is that we are getting more sun light in a day.  We've had some beautiful sun shiny days lately, but unfortunately it's been way below freezing and windy so almost too hard to be outside.

Somehow, this time of the year is when my body is starting to wake up from the forever long winter.  I want to clean and reorganize the whole house, do big Spring cleaning, I start to exercise more regularly and think of the races I could do, and I try to do way more things than I can get done in a day.  Another reason why waiting for Spring is like waiting to have a baby - getting into that nesting mode.  I have to admit, not having to deal with the humongous belly, being uncomfortable all day and not getting nearly enough sleep even before the baby is here is a lot better deal.  Another thing I always have to do as the Spring is approaching is to get my hair done.  I usually don't do much with it all winter and I don't care that it grows out of its style and my roots are showing until I get the Spring itch.  So this week I got my hair cut and new highlights and just that makes me feel so much Springier that I almost don't care it's too cold to go outside.  Almost! :)

It is funny, Ehren and I started watching this old tv show in the winter time called Northern Exposures.  It is situated in a tiny town in Alaska (even though it's filmed in Washington) and somehow it makes us feel good watching it and seeing that someone might have it a bit worse than we do as far as the weather goes.  :)  It is a great tv show though with good writing, so much better than the crappy shows they make nowadays.  And this winter it became our regular Friday or Saturday night activity, as we sip our hot tea and cuddle under the blankets.     

So now I am ready for the 30s-40s (Fahrenheit) and have that snow melt away.  We will have a lot of mud around our house for a while, but as long as the winter is gone I don't care.  I know I'll be able to still go cross country skiing and ice skating a few more weekends but I sure hope I won't have to pull those skates out in April.  Anika knows that we are going to Slovakia when all the snow is gone because that's what I've been telling her.  We leave April 24th, which is Easter Sunday and I really hope we have a beautiful weather by then.  We are all itching for the green trees and grass and it will be so beautiful once it's here.

my haircut, which is not exactly styled at the moment