Five Minute Friday

I am doing this early today because I know that if I don't post right now, I don't know when I'll get another chance.  Our company has effectively moved out of the house with the exception of a few small pieces and parts, and with it goes this computer.  I do have a laptop, so I will keep up, but this weekend is going to full full full with getting everything organized in the new location!  I will post some pictures soon!

So, once again I am participating in Five Minute Friday from over at Gypsy Mama.

The rules?  Write for five minutes without stopping to edit or revise.

Today's topic?  When seasons change.

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When seasons change I always feel like it is a time of renewal and starting over.  I get to start a new garden or mulch over one that didn't go well during the summer.  I get to get the kids out of school or I get to put them back in!  I get to open the windows and feel the fresh air or I get the urge to batten the hatches and bake some cookies to warm the house with sweet smells.  I get to hang out outside and roast marshmallows with the family or I get to snuggle on the bed and watch a movie.  There are so many things.  I used to teach and it was so great.  All year I would be in the classroom and right when I was so tired of being in there, it would be summer time and I would get to have my summer camp at my house.  Then, right when I was tired of trying to recover my destroyed house every night, it would be fall and time to hit the classroom again.  I love the rhythm of the changes.  Every spring when it starts to get a little warmer and I can open the windows, I hear the birds chirping outside the window and I remember when each of my kids were born and getting up wtih thim in the early hours to feed them and chage them.  I love the warmth of spring after the long hard winter but then I miss the cool of fall when the heat of summer bears down on us.  That was one things that I really missed when I lived in Hawaii..  There are no seasons; just the rainy hot season and the drier hot season.

I love the way the rhythm of the seasons wraps its way around our family and helps to create unique family memories that can be brought back by a breeze on the skin or a scent in the air.

BEEP!  That's it for today!  Let's see what happened!