Spring has Sprung

Wow, are things ever changing around here.  It seems like we are creeping out of winter from hibernation and stretching out our legs and breathing in the fresh smell of spring.  I love spring.  Fall is my favorite season but with spring, it's like a new beginning, a new start.  Everything is new and growing and changing.  Waking up from a deep slumber.  While here in Idaho, we are still sloshing around in the massive spring rains, the hint of spring is in the air.  The trees are budding, the Red-winged blackbird and Robins have returned from their wintering area.  This year, Spring is symbolic of my life. It truly represents what we have been through. 

I honestly feel like we were hibernating for years. Hiding away grumbling under the snow cover.  Things felt dead, cold, stark, for so very long that this fresh breath of air is so welcome.  Our housing dilemma has finally come to a close.  We decided to purchase out home we were renting here in Middleton and plant our roots for a while.  It is not my dream home, but to have a home that is ours is a dream come true.  No worries of someone telling us to leave, the feeling of betrayal that our landlords were pocketing our rent money for their own use.  Now its ours, our responsibility.

With the joy of homeownership comes the task of making what was a house, a home.  We can decorate now, actually unpack from the latest move, plant a garden, paint, do as we wish.  Now we all know this does not come without its own share of headaches, but something about it being your own, makes it a little more bareable.

So now we have some projects to tend to and I am excited about them all.  I want a real garden this year, so we get to till up the land and plant what we want.  There is some minor landscaping to do, plants to remove, areas to organize.  But it isn't just the physical things that are changing.  We hope to take a vacation this year, a real one.  We were notified today that Taylor was accepted into a great charter school and the others are on a waiting list so hopefully eventually they get in soon too.  I brought home 4 additions to the family today.  We are now the owners of 4 baby chicks, that will soon become egg layers over the summer.  We have 4 and I am picking up another one tomorrow.  They are adorable and I am really enjoying them!  Who knew they cold be so entertaining.  Right now they are living in the garage and their coop will arrive at the end of April.  Shortly after that they will be moved outside.

I have lots to blog about like usual.  the kids are on spring break, but the weather is nasty.  I was hoping for some sunshine but we probably won't see any til Thursday.