Journal

The month of changes. It starts as winter ~ it ends as spring. Cold to warm, dark to light, quiet to busy... Just one short month ago we had a foot of snow on the ground, freezing temperatures, and only the dream of spring. Warm days felt like distant memories that may never return. And now we're here, with the sun shining, the clocks changed, and new growth pushing up, out of the ground. The changes that happen at this time of year are magical, and remind us what we're all c

More snow. More inside days. Hot chocolate, cookies, warm dinners. Mom's hand knit wool mittens. We ventured outside one afternoon, with some pure maple syrup, and sat down in the fresh snow for a little snack. When you drizzle the syrup into the snow, and mix it around a bit, it makes a maple-syrup-slushy, that is oh-so-good. Today, we're at the end of the month. It's the last day of February, and we've warmed up to 44 degrees, which is a vast difference from the below-zero

As I type this, we're closing out the last day of the first month of the new year. The morning light is a clear blue, with a stripe of peach over the trees, and has a crisp, crackling look to it, like the ice on the ground. The grass and roofs are covered in snow, and my thermometer is registering -6 degrees outside. Like most people, I have some new year's resolutions this year. Some are lofty, some realistic, some challenging. One of the commitments I've made to myself so f