{Evidence}

Spring is here.
Well, not officially, that's not until Sunday, BUT,  it's pretty much here.
Yesterday was the nicest day we have had in long, long time.
I feel like our Winter started at the end of November. That was a long time ago.
A long, long Winter indeed.

But I stepped out the back door yesterday morning and there was a robin pulling a worm out of the ground,  the birds were singing, the sun was shining and we were not wearing heavy coats.

And just so you don't imagine it to be too perfect, I almost stepped in dog poop about five times 

just on the way to the car. Guess what we will be doing this weekend?

Oh, but how we have waited for this.

I know we will still have some chilly days (but please no snow, seriously) but Spring is definitely

on it's way now.

Yesterday we opened a few windows in the house, drove with the windows down in the Jeep

and I actually saw Charlotte's feet. In sand.

Ummm...let's just pretend it was somewhere else and not our little old lake though, k?

I'll let you imagine it's something else, like we do.

We got a bunch of pussy willow branches from Eric's mom yesterday.

There are little jars and vases and pitchers of them all over the house now.

We are bringing Spring inside.

We are ready.

Oh-and in case you missed it yesterday....

WE ARE ON SPRING BREAK!

And we are excited. No big plans, just the way I like it.

Ironically, as I am typing this it is thundering and the temperature has dropped considerably...

welcome to almost-Spring in Illinois, folks. But we are hoping for warmer weather again

 over the weekend.

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So what about you, any big weekend plans?

Happy Friday!