I'm FREE!!!

It was 50 degrees today.  50!!  Do you KNOW how WARM that is?!  It was like summer...ok, not quite summer but seriously.  I haven't gone for a walk with N since November.  I haven't gone for a walk alone since November.  I haven't really been outside, more than to get to and from the car, since November.  Early November.  That's 4 months...4 months, of being inside.  Remember too, I work from home.  So my universe has really been home, home, daycare, home, grocery store, home, daycare, home.   Even N was longing to get out...

So to be able to expand our universe to the outdoors again was AWESOME.  N and I went for an hour walk around the neighborhood today.  It was wonderful.  The fresh air was so awesome and N loved it.  He was amazed by everything we went by.  He was quiet the whole time.  Just looking around.  I swear that kid takes EVERYTHING in.  He absorbs everything around him and I'm convinced that one day he's just going to turn around and blurt out something like "Oh hush, doggy! We're just walking by" because that's what I say to barking dogs.  He looks like he is concentrating so hard on seeing it all.  I wonder what's going on in that little head of his.  When we got back, he took an hour and a half long nap, which he rarely does in the afternoon.

I really hope this weather stays.  I realize that I chose to live here in New England.  I lived in the south, in the warm, sunny weather for a long time and I didn't like it.  So I chose to live here, but one of the reasons that I love to live here is I love ALL the seasons.  I love the snow in the winter and the quiet it brings, I love the spring with the rain and the flowers and the green.  I love the sun in the summer and going to our house in NH on the lake and the BBQ's with friends and family.  I love the fall with the vibrant colors and the smell.  There's just something about the smell of fall.  I have loved this winter, but I would be very happy for it to be over.  It's time for spring.  For flowers and t-shirts and rain showers and perfect weather and new babies (nieces to be exact!) and birds and green trees.  I'm so ready.  I hope today's weather was not a tease, I hope that the snow is over for this winter and that the nice weather is here to stay.