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| (The Homestead last spring) |
This time of year is hardest for me. The holidays are over. I've packed all the pretties away. The new year has begun and I am ready for warm weather. Then guess what? Winter just goes on and on and on. I am homesick for summer-- summersick.
Saturday Nathan pruned the raspberry bushes. All of us were out there, bundled up and picking up sticks. The kids built a tepee with the cast off canes. I kept looking around and thinking how much I want to be able to sit outside in the sunshine. I want to wander around in a sweatshirt without gloves and be warm. I want it not to be dark by 4:30 p.m.
Today, the clouds hang low again. The color is washed from the sky. I keep reminding myself of the song we sang in church yesterday... "There is sunshine in my soul today..." I wish it was warm enough to kick all the kids outside without finding them coats and shoes.
I like the term "summersick".
ReplyDeleteSoon... soon... spring and summer will be here before we know it?
I hope...
I so agree! I'm so sick of the bone cracking cold and the darkness. I need sun!
ReplyDeleteI'm ready for some sunshine too! Maybe that will motivate me to get up and get in shape.
ReplyDeleteamen!!!
ReplyDeleteWait!! I am still hoping for more snow. I want more time to play in the white stuff and was just lamenting that January has been sadly lacking. What you need to tide you over are some pretty Valentine's decorations to put up as soon as you pack the Christmas stuff away. I'm talking pink and white kitchen towels, table runners, window decals, etc. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBTW - You need to start looking YOUR age too! You look 18.