dancing...

last night i fell asleep to the sound of rain and this morning i awoke to the sound of birds singing. sure signs that spring is here... unfortunately, the warm weather has not yet taken over from the freezing temps. soon. i'm ready for driving with the windows down!

i spent all day saturday in flint. it was a great time. coldstone, the boondock saints/all saints day, power outages, an attempt at some irish food, and just being in the company of good friends.

sometimes i wish i was easy to say the things that are on my heart... but when the good things you want to say to encourage a friend also mean opening yourself up to some pain, it becomes more difficult. i find that my mind just wants to go blank and not even process the words to say. i'm afraid that this is leading to a block in my friendship. all i want to do is open up and say what a blessing this friendship has been to me, but i just can't get the words out...

i'm beginning to work through my reading list that JRose gave me two summer's ago. it seems that reading books is a habit i would like to get back into. i suppose if i replaced some of my tv watching with reading i would get a lot further with that list. it is pretty sad that its been 2 years and i haven't made it through even half of the list. i actually missed my lazy sunday afternoons when i would sit outside and read... i think i need to make sure that happens again this year! which i suppose will be somewhat easy seeing as how i'm not planning to live all summer at the camp.

its going to be a very different time this summer. i am going to be better about the amount of hours i'm putting in and since my friends won't be at camp this year, i'll be wanting to still spend time in flint...

for as much as i want summer to come, i want time to pass slowly so that i can cherish each moment i have with mantel and jrose. it seems that time goes so quickly these days, that i don't want to wish anything away... not even to get to warmer weather. haha.

i need to go to ikea soon to pick up items for kick-off. that will be fun! i remember going shopping there last spring, only that trip was to shop for items to decorate up my cabin. boy is it weird to think of how much my life has changed since then. last year i was helping to plan our first and only project festival and dreaming about my cabin and how fun summer was going to be...

this year all i can think about is keeping up with work and hanging out in flint haha!

but in the midst of all the changes, God is good and i am so thankful and blessed.