It’s official. Spring will be coming to Michigan this side of sometime.
And there is much rejoicing in our household over this rock solid fact. Kids here and there have been flinging off their winter boots in favor of too-tiny flip flips, ripping out bathing suits and entering ice-crusted puddles with nothing more than pajama shorts and Texas-sized grins.
{Don’t judge my lack of intervention. It’s called reality discipline, and it’s a glorious thing}
The sun is shining, they say, so surely 35 degrees feels warmer today than it did yesterday.
I can set my watch by their re-entry. This week they’ve reached 8 minutes and 32 seconds. Depending on the wind chill.
They enter the house dripping wet, partially frozen and slightly resentful about the lack of feeling in their little appendages.
Sipping hot chocolate by the fire doesn’t delay Spring’s arrival, does it? It’s not entirely like courting the old while flirting with the new.
Yup, Spring is most certainly coming this year, and it’s guaranteed to be here before next Winter, especially with our wild wrangling of the nuggets she swings in the direction of our weather-worn spirits.
Until she firmly plants her toasty tush in our yard, we’ll keep repeating this unconventional “it’s almost sort of not winter” routine. Because life is too short to be normal.
In celebration, print this off and pop it in a frame by your growing pile of dripping clothes next to the fire place. It’ll make you feel better about yourself, guaranteed.
Or twice your Winter back.
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{Spring is nature’s way of saying…let’s party!}
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