Spring...it needs to come. The kids are getting restless, the teachers are getting restless, and it hasn't even been that bad of a winter! The problem is the cold; the biting, driving cold. This is the no-snow-but-freezing-ice-cold-frostbite-depressing-stay-at-home kind of winter. It is the kind that is hard on all of us. I see the effects day after day. The kids seem to become more sluggish and lazy, not having the drive or motivation even to do anything. I feel it too. Deep down in the marrow of my bones. It is not a normal winter, it is abnormal. The flowers need to come; peeping out of what little snow on the ground we have. The rain needs to come, there has been little to no precipitation all year. Grass needs to grow; beautiful, fresh grass smelling of rich earth and life. The darkness needs to fade, more daylight needs to come and with it a rejuvenation of life in this place where darkness and cold take hold for a majority of our months. I'm waiting...waiting for the spring.
