Spam?!

Thats right. I need to talk about this deliciously, salty staple that Minnesota calls "Spam". My daughter, C. who lives on fruit and cheese won't touch almost any other "meat" (dare I call spam that?) except this! She loves it!!! She'll eat it hot, cold, fried , boiled, basted or roasted...the girl is crazy over it! With it's REALLY high salt content, I am not sure it is any better then just buying the girl a salt lick and attaching that to my kitchen wall! So I don't buy it often , but if you are in wal-mart and happen to hear the far away shrills of a very happy little girl crying out"We get Spam?!Yeah!!! Spam!!!" don't worry, it's just us...

Who knew?

Spring is sooo here!

I grew up in the Southwest where the only two varying degrees are hot and hotter. Where grass is a serious luxury, and most of us just have pretty colored rock. Nothing wrong with that in a state where water is scarce and cacti are the natural landscape that covers those gorgeous mountains.

We moved here to Minnesota only about 18 months ago. This time last year I was back "visiting" AZ and missed this most amazing transformation of the short days of winter to the long warm days of spring! The beauty of thousands of tall majestic trees "waking up" after the dorment days of winter is overwhelming to me... Once again I feel like God is painting this huge canvas just for me... I anxiously run to meet everyday, just to get a peek, wondering what artists touches he has added today!

I am sorry if it sounds trivial for those who are used to this-but so much green, these long warm breezes that just take the edge off of the sun, and these lakes! It's all so new and sweet to me! It is not just the kids that I have to keep focused on school-I want to go outside too! I am longing to go sit on my back porch and slowly work on my cross-stitch while I sip on some sweet tea and just quitely enjoy the day with my children....yeah, I'm sorry where was I?

Is this what is called spring fever?