Happy Spring!!!

The first day of spring has always been one of my favorite days of the year for some reason. I feel all giddy and excited whenever I see that day finally roll around. A couple years ago Ricky and I were on vacation in NY when we stopped at this little tiny antique store and beside the store was a little tiny yard sale and at the yard sale was a little tiny box of old books and inside the box was this little tiny book that looked cute so... without reading it I just picked it up and bought it for the little tiny price of 25cents. Unbeknownst to me this little book would become one of Chase's and my favorites. It's very cute:

Spring is a New Beginning

Joan Walsh Anglund

copyright date 1963

Spring is a new beginning...

It is a season of young life...

of nesting birds

and crocuses.

Yellow is its color...

the warm yellow of the sun...

of the bright buttercup

and the daffodil.

Then all the world is leafy-tipped and new.

Then the earth is rich with seedlings.

Then come delicious days

of hunting wild strawberries...

of picking violets and forget-me-nots...

of sailing boats

and dipping eggs

and finding hidden bunnies.

This is the season of the tadpole

and the duckling...

of robins' eggs

cupped in a soft bed of straw...

of calves trying out their wobbly legs...

and of the fawn's

first brown-eyed look at spring

Then new life presses out

from every growing thing...

fulfilling our trust,

renewing our faith

that this has always been,

that this will be again....

Spring brings an end to winter

and a fresh beginning.

It is a gentle farewell

to yesterday

and the birth of new hope.