Hope SPRINGS eternal. Today is the first big day of the MLB season. Yesterday was our first long daylight hours day. So now, no matter what the weather and what goofy 'winter' we may go through, it feels like spring. I am not a winter person at all. I hate the cold. I hate the dead and barren trees and brown lawns. I hate the darkness overtaking us at 5:30 each evening. So right now, there is a cloud that has lifted for me. I actually mowed my yard last week because it needed it. And the grass is soooo green right now. Ricky is nearly 3 and can finally catch a ball that is thrown to him so we should have much fun this spring and summer. Briannah is 5 and we'll be doing the whole bicycle thing this year. Zxyan being 10 will disappear to play with her friends for long periods of time and that is fine with me. Some of my greatest memories were hangin' out with friends around the neighborhood until someone drug is into the house after dark. Of course poor Riley isn't even 1 yet and won't get to enjoy things the same my other younguns will, but that's ok. We'll keep him in a cool house and spoil the heck out of him.

So, watch some baseball, enjoy the long days, and if have the chance, teach a kid to ride a bike. It's the most wonderful time of the year...