Sunny Day, Sweeping the clouds away

Well for once the weather man was right! partly at least... it's been raining for the past couple of days, but this morning dawned bright and sunny with a few clouds in the sky. a perfect day for a birthday! Yvonne woke me up at 9.30 to say Happy Birthday and i dragged myself out of bed, ate a huge breakfast, organized my room, and put away my little Christmas tree for the rest of the year. For me the Christmas season isn't over until my birthday, then and only then should the decorations come down. my family doesn't quite see it that way though so the big tree comes down before New Years....:S i wrote a few letters, walked to the mailbox, and realized what a truly beautiful day it was today! i raced home, grabbed a scarf and my camera and set off again. the wind blew away my winter blues and the sun warmed me to the core, the first sun in about almost a month really, and what a comeback! God may be melting away all the frosting He put on the city but He's leaving behind a lush and green landscape. Thank you Lord!
And now it's off to my birthday dinner....21 years old!

Sick Day

According to the weatherman it's supposed to be raining. But is it? No. It isn't. Yesterday it snowed a good 5 inches at my house, only stopping in the late evening. Snow everywhere! I'm dying to go out in it but i know it would be foolish, i'm stuck at home today, tired and sick, while my mom goes to work for me for a few hours. I feel depressingly useless when i'm sick. But i did have fun this morning, Hannah painted her wooden H she got for Christmas while I amused myself to no end finger painting. I felt like a kid again, happy to just smoosh my fingers in the cold paint, not worried about the smudge on my nose or the smears all over my arms and the table. We listened to Jesse and Liz Enns new cd, Light Of The Morning, which is a really good cd, and ate apples and crackers and cheese. Sisterly bonding!
It's melting outside now, puddles of slush on the driveway which i forced myself to shovel, icicles all gone (:( tis a shame!), there is however still a foot of snow in the front yard with 3 ft high piles by the driveway. Those will take some time to melt thankfully. And who knows, maybe tomorrow i'll be feeling better and i'll drag myself outdoors to make snow angels!....