Spring?

Well, it's Monday morning.  The first day of Spring, my very favorite season.  Sort of surprising, given how the pollen reeks major havoc on my body, but I just can't help but love the season anyway.  Sun, green, watching all the flowers start to poke their unsuspecting little leaves out, new sports seasons, and looking forward to the relaxing pace of summer.  But lo and behold, today, the first day of Spring, we have a bit of snow!  Huh?  Yup.  Not much.  Enough to be pretty, coat the cars and require the ice scraper come out one last time (yes, of course, I pushed it to the very back depths of the closet just last week...grrr).  It seems like a bit of a last teaser of snow.  Thanks Winter, as if you didn't spend the entire season teasing us with snow.  Again.

Granted, three years ago we got totally clobbered with snow.  Over.  And over.  And over.  It was a monstrous snow season.  We kept telling the kids that they may never see that much snow again in this area.  It was crazy.  And then each winter since then, we've gotten a mere pittance of the white stuff.  And this year has been no different.  When we finally got a forecast a few weeks ago for a major incoming storm, you could feel the anticipation in the air.  Finally!  We were going to have a good 12" of snow!  Yippee!  And no dice.  The temperatures stayed just a bit too warm, so what we got was a big sloshy, wet, mess.  Not much fun.  For anyone.

I'm hopeful that today's snow will be the end for this snow season.  I'm ready to move forward.  Start Spring already!  John's soccer team played in a pre-season tournament this weekend and his baseball team has their first team meeting tonight.  We leave for our annual spring break trip to the Outer Banks in just a few days.  It would be nice if Mother Nature could follow along with all of these other signs of spring.  And I know it will eventually.  Just not on my timeline.  That would just be too convenient.

So for today, I'm going to enjoy the beauty of the bushes and grass covered in this (hopefully) last dusting of snow.  I'm going to be thankful that the roads are fine and schools weren't even delayed.  We can go about our day as normal and appreciate the sights along our way.

As long as it starts to act like Spring sometime soon!