I’ll admit it. March completely snuck up on me. I don’t know what happened to January or to February or how on earth Easter is in two weeks – I still have thank you notes to write from Christmas for goodness sake!!

But between colds, and travels, and snow days off from school somehow Spring is upon us. I looked out the window and the foot of snow from last week was gone! It’s all of a sudden quite a bit warmer and if you listen carefully, you can hear the birds beginning to sing happy little songs. We turn the clocks ahead this weekend and yesterday we raised up the seat on my daughter’s bike.

There are signs everywhere of life waking up. It’s not just the animals coming out of hibernation, it’s us too. All of a sudden we see our neighbors, we stop to chat, we open doors and windows. Pretty soon the trees and flowers will start blooming and the grills will come back out.

I ready to sit back on my porch, look up at the sky, and enjoy the feeling of that bright, beautiful sun on my face. It’s been gone for much too long. While I may be surprised that Spring is here, I’m so very glad that it is.