Anyone? Anyone?
Back on January 5th, Ryan and I watched out the window as snow fell, bringing us Snowmageddon, 2014. Every hour, on the hour, I took pictures of our birdbath...watching as over twelve hours, we went from this:
That was Sunday.
Then came the week that followed.
The snow that had been so much fun to play in had to be cleared. Ryan shoveled...and shoveled...and shoveled...and dug out the car that got stuck at the end of the driveway. We crept along in our vehicle during the travel ban to get to the emergency room to see Ryan's mom when she got really sick. I left home 2 hours before work began and STILL got there late...and I had a leg cramp on top of it all.
Suddenly snow wasn't so much fun. It had become a headache...and obstacle...even an enemy. Snowmageddon went from a fun Sunday snowed in with my husband, making scrapbookable memories to the never...ending...winter...that has to be dealt with in ways that exhaust me.
Anyone with me on that?
My Facebook feed is filled with people counting down the days until spring, and I think it's something like 56...but the truth is, it doesn't matter when spring arrives on the calendar. Winter is here until it's done, and I have no idea when it will be done. Tomorrow is good with me, but it could be another month...or two...or {please, NO!} three.
I say all of this because this season of winter reminds me of another season we're going through right now. A long waiting season that has a logical end in our minds but in truth, we have no idea when or how it's going to end in our real life.
Anyone with me on that?
Waiting for direction from God? Losing steam in the season that may have seemed fun at the beginning but has gone on until it's long...and exhausting...and obstacle filled...and while the end IS out there...not knowing when it will come is...exhausting.
I say this to you while I say it to myself...spring is out there somewhere. It will come.
And until then...we persevere.
In the waiting and in the winter.
We persevere and wait for this:
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It's another snow day here in Boston! And polar vortex day: -15 with the windchill!
I love winter so I don't mind!
Oh my goodness!! You be safe out there in that! We're supposed to get our cold back next week, and if I have to choose between cold and snow, I'll take the cold because at least I know how to drive in that! But I'd rather have beach weather! :)
Did you paint your fence during that first snow day?
I'm so very hard trying to figure out how your fence turned green. HAHA! :)
Danielle,
I was wondering the same and noticed the bird bath turned green as well as the porch support and what's with the black hole in the fence and the bushes vanished... wow some storm!!!!
You guys make me laugh!
Fence is green because of the lighting in the yard at night! There's an outside light out there and it casts weird colors over the yard at night! LOL!!!
OR a very powerful storm. Take your pick!
Oh, I am so over winter. Especially having to drag Miss Rachel out in it twice every weekday to get Sam to and from school.
Thank you for reminding me that in pretty much the rest of my life though, I am in the Spring of it. It's nice to be reminded that last year I was in a literal and figurative winter.
And I'm trying to tell myself that Spring will be ever so much sweeter this year because of this Winter.
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