Hello Spring!!

I think we have had an unprecedented three weekend days (yes, I had a three day weekend) of NO rain and LOTS of sunshine. It was very conducive to my spring "cleaning". I opened up the windows and have been organizing like mad for our upcoming move. The movers will be coming in a little over a month as it takes approx 45-60 days for our household goods to arrive at our next destination. So, we will be living with the bare essentials and loaner furniture until we fly out the first week of July. Fortunately two weeks of that will be on a Spanish Italian Mediterranean cruise!! Anyways, I really enjoy the opportunity afforded by the military moves to purge our lives/households of accumulated "junk" and get organized!! Our kitchen table is a mess as I have gone through our house and collected all of my magazines (I am a magazine junkie) and am going through them to tear out recipes, interesting articles, decorating ideas etc. I am going to put them in a binder to refer to later. I subscribe to Southern Living, Real Simple, and Parents; but, much to my husbands distaste, I frequently buy Health, Runners World...among others. I think I collected over 50+ around the house!! That in and of itself has been a chore. Today, I am going through my closet to donate all the clothes that no longer fit, including shoes (since after Ms Elsa, I am 1/2 size bigger...LOL)

Friday, I took Elsa for a run in the jogger and then decided to introduce her to GRASS. At first she just stared at it. Then, she would pull some blades up and look at them so inquisitively and then toss them aside. Just to repeat the process all over again. It was as if each blade of grass was drastically different from the previous. Then, in true Elsa form, as soon as I ran in the house to put my camera away, she decided to taste the grass. She definitely enjoyed being outside and having some freedom crawling around in the grass.