Signs of Spring

Lacey is very anxious for Spring to arrive.  She does not understand the cycle of the seasons and keeps asking how we are going to make Spring come.  Lacey says that she doesn't remember Spring in China.  This isn't really surprising, since the city of Shanghai consists mainly of high rise buildings.  Cassie loves Spring and is doing her best to teach Lacey what Spring means to us.  

Here are the top 10 signs that Spring is coming to our home:

1.  The doors slam about 100 times a day as the girls race in and out of the house.

2.  I have enough energy to do both yard work and housework!

3.  The red-headed woodpecker in the backyard wakes us up each morning.

4.  Popsicles fall out every time I open the freezer door.

5.  Thanks to the girls, there are as may leaves, rocks and twigs inside the house as out.

6.  The school is asking for money again.  Oh, that would be year-round, not just in Spring!

7.  The girls have outgrown all their clothes.  I guess that would be year-round too!

8.  I'm making Cassie listen to stories of how we ate dandelion greens when I was growing up.

9.  The pile of dead moles outside the doorway rivals the mound of flip-flops inside the doorway.  And. . . 

10.  Like the Phoenix, Les rises from among the couch cushions and heads for the hardware store!

"Little House on the Prairie"

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