Spring?

Spring is the time for new growth and regeneration--and floods, I guess, when you live in mid-MO! Flooding was not something I ever really knew anything about before I moved here, or rain without "severe weather warnings." Back east, you could count on spring thunderstorms and we loved them! You could sit outside and watch the amazing natural light show, get soaked, and appreciate the fact that everything would sparkle in the morning. Once we moved to Missouri, we learned that rain is seldom a cleansing shower, it is a fear invoking, life threatening ordeal.

That has changed lately. In the last couple years, we've had a lot of regular rain. This year, it seems it doesn't really want to stop. But that's life isn't it? You never get what you expect because as soon as you think you have some kind of nice normal pattern, something or someone throws a wrench in the whole darn plan! So you learn to appreciate the changes and the surprise and new experiences they might bring, or mourn what you've lost.

So we come into this spring with a new appreciation for life and newness and how things can turn on a dime, but dreary storms can bring a new sheen to situations that once looked quite muddy and unattractive. Monday Bo has his quarterly scans and we have no reason to think everything won't be well, but it will represent almost a year since we started out little cancer trip and the start of what we hope will be a nice normal summer for Bo. But we'll let y'all know after we get the results on Monday.

Have a great spring! Lisa