SNOW!

It's back......and everyone is complaining. We live in Northern Utah People, get real it is still January!
I love the snow, I don't enjoy driving in it or shoveling it, but that is the price we pay. I also love the hot sun in the summer, the wet green beauty of the spring and the long Indian summer days of Autumn. I live here because of the four seasons. There is only one time I don't love and that is the dirty snow season; the ugly time between winter and spring. Unfortunately this season sometimes crosses over my Birthday...but hey, what can you do.
SNOW!
Off to shovel now....great exercise!
MCC

Fall or Winter?

When fall and Winter collide on my patio......because I don't have enough to do this week.

SNOW and Cold

It is so cold, but it is snowing so that might change things. I love to look at the snow. I love to watch it falling from the sky. i like when it glistens in the sun like glitter on a crisp winter day. I like to play in it for about an hour, but when i get cold or have to drive in it or it gets icy and has that blacky/brown hue to it I really dislike it. Nelson on the other hand loves the snow.....everything about it. This is his favorite season.

When I think about the snow like the description of how winter/snow should be in the song Camelot from the the musical......a legal limit to the snow, winter cannot start until December and exits March the 2nd on the dot, snow may never slush upon the hillside,....you know perfect conditions.

I keep telling myself that it is winter and the snow is needed and that just because Christmas is over doesn't mean that winter is over..... unfortunately it goes on and on and on making March an ugly month......winter sometimes is like a wet, dead, pigeon...gray, cold and soggy.....

If life didn't have to go on outside of my home I probably wouldn't mind the snow and cold so much, but alas life happens outside as well.....

MCC

A Blessed Beautiful Day

I feel like I have lost a month...I am missing the Christmas Season, one of my favorite times of the year...I am so far behind December isn't even on my radar, and today is the 19th.....ahhh! 6 days 'till Christmas?!?!

But today things have changed....
After attending Hayden's Jr. High Christmas music assembly (what a painful experience for the ears...I don't love beginning strings, or madrigal groups that sing flat. The Band was good..especially the guy on the snare drum in Sleigh Ride, and the bells in Mr. Grinch), we exited the building into a winter wonder land. It had been snowing since mid morning, and it has snowed several times in the past week (I know I have shoveled every time and boy are my arms sore), so I was not missing the snow....but coming out of the school everything was different, things looked better and felt exciting. When we arrived home a few minutes later my house was different as well, the decorations and lights looked special. The Christmas magic was in the air! Today was a day when everything fell together in a perfect rhythm....holiday music, snow, lights, family together, good holiday smells, Christmas projects being completed....it was a beautiful day, a perfect pre-Christmas Day. It reminded me of days from my childhood...the days that lasted forever and ever and the days when everything was just right.

With the perfectness of this day I didn't catch up on my list, or have time from the past month renewed to me...but I know this day was made for me. A day to fulfill a deep need inside of me, a day to find peace and be at peace with the way things are. Because of the perfectness of this day I know that I am loved and blessed by my Heavenly Father.
What a wonderful, blessed, beautiful day!

MCC