Well...winter is officially over and it's the first day of spring 2018! I'm so thankful!
Normally, I'm content is any season (fall is my favorite, then spring, then winter, then summer), but, this year, once we got past that first good snow, I was ready for spring! Winter seemed to just drag on and on! I'm so glad it's spring!
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).
Here are some of the things that I'm looking forward to this spring and hope to accomplish throughout the course of the season...
1. Write my spring bucket list
2. Plan my spring menus (these will be posted each Monday in my weekly Happy Homemaker Monday posts)
3. Read the account of Christ's death and resurrection out of all four gospels 🕮
4. Dye Easter eggs
5. Have an egg hunt for the grandlittles
7. Watch Jesus of Nazareth
8. Eat a Russell Stover's Maple Cream Egg with my oldest daughter on her birthday (it's tradition!)
9. Celebrate Resurrection Sunday (church and lunch with family and friends)
10. Pick a bouquet of pretty yellow daffodils
11. Celebrate spring birthdays with the grandlittles 🎂
12. Attend KCM's Victory Campaign 2018 in Branson
13. Celebrate Passover by reading the Biblical account and preparing (or attending) a seder meal
14. Plant a tree for Arbor Day (I'm really wanting a sugar maple for the front yard - this might be a good time to look into it) 🌳
15. See Indian paintbrush blooming on the prairie
16. Plant a vegetable garden 🌱
17. Celebrate May Day with a basket of fresh flowers 🌷
18. Eat fresh strawberries
19. Plan and complete spring programs at work -
A) Lunch For a Bear (Library) 🐻
B) Birds of a Feather (HS) 🐦
C) Legend of the Indian Paintbrush (Library)
D) Poetic Prairie (HS)
E) Fox in the Forest (Library)
F) Nature Weaving (Public) 🌸
G) Let's "Stick" Together (Public)
H) Missouri Frogs and Toads (Library) 🐸
20. Celebrate Mother's Day by sharing flowers with the ladies at church, my daughters, and daughters-in-law 🌺
21. Eat fresh asparagus
22. Listen to spring peepers 🐸
23. Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with a cookout 🍔
24. See a brand new baby bison
25. Plant sunflower seeds
26. Include fresh dandelion greens in our spring salads
27. Go with my friend, Laura, on a Herceptin "date" (includes a trip to the cancer treatment center with lunch following)
28. Observe a bird's nest with eggs in it and watch until the babies hatch
30. Hike all six trails at Prairie State Park
A) Drovers
B) Coyote
C) Gayfeather
D) Path of the Sky People
E) Path of the Earth People
F) Sandstone
31. Start going through those totes in storage that I didn't make it to over the winter months
32. See a prairie chicken
33. Put up at least one new birdhouse in our yard
34. Make at least two new shopping bags from 50# sunflower seed bags
35. Put out feeders for the hummingbirds
36. Get my herb wheel in place and plant herbs in it (this is an old wagon wheel that we had at the old place; moved it over here and forgot about it; it's still in storage)
37. Get a clothesline up
38. Get started on our moon garden
39. Go camping with my husband
40. Take a walk in the rain
41. Put up a new birdhouse
42. Get blinds put up on south-facing windows
43. Make jelly
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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