If you want it bad enough, you can make it happen

As a little kid, I have vivid memories of about this time each year.  It's that "WINTER HAS GOT TO BE OVER NOW!" stage.  And as a kid, my brother and I decided there was something we could do about it.  It we personally got rid of the snow, we could will spring here.  So we'd go back outside the house with shovels or buckets or late-winter grubby mittens and shovel show into the alley to watch it melt.

And what do you know, it worked?!  As a kid it never really occurred to me that the changing of the seasons would happen regardless, I liked feeling like I was doing something about it.  And so I have been teaching the kids the same tradition.  We call it "Making Spring Come."

It is gorgeous here today.  Sunny.  50 degrees.  But still plenty of snow sitting in our north facing back yard.  After a very long, very snowy winter, it feels great but that snow has got to go.  So the boys went out with me to help spring hurry up and get here.