I don't always love the start of Daylight Savings Time... that hour of sleep lost (or that we never had in the first place depending on how you look at it) always seems to throw me for a few days, I'm a baby sensitive when it comes to sleep! But what I do love is the change in seasons. The daffodils are peaking out (they have been since those crazy 65 degree days in February and January) and it is always this time of year that I begin to think longingly of those warm summer months. If you've been around this space long enough you know I teach and I'm a baby sensitive when it comes to my summer. Those long days of doing everything or nothing without the reminder of a fairly aggressive bell is so lovely. It's around this time that it dawns on me that this really is the homestretch. And though I try to take every day as it comes, this year has been different. I find myself waiting for the last few months (and classes!) to wrap up... with all the promise that that ending really means to my life. That lovely Charley Harper calendar I picked up at Christmas tells me just a few short months and summer it will be. Though this summer is going to be a bit different with classes and coursework, I'm feeling the need to be done. I have a choice ahead of me that involves a schedule that really isn't such great timing with the end of the year with school... I'll be taking (for the last two weeks of school) two classes (which meet Monday and Wednesday, Tuesday and Thursday respectively) an hour away from school and an hour and a half away from my loves and my bed. A little daunting. That does allow me to finish up my degree this summer, and to be done with classes a little earlier than I expected. We're weighing the options and thinking it through...
In the midst of these decisions that need to be made and soon, a little stack of spring arrived... and I wanted to tear into it and sew a simple square patchwork quilt together the second I pulled it out of the carefully packaged envelope from Fat Quarter Shop. I showed restraint and got other work done instead... maybe with a little bit of pie, but who's keeping track? I'm loving those spring-ish and happy colors. They're reminding me of the beginnings and endings of things... the beginning of spring in earnest, summer and it's bittersweetness this year, and even 2 am on November 4th. Possibly someone is lacking a little sleep! Anyway, a very happy weekend friends, I hope you are enjoying all that is in the moment, but also feeling the excitement of things on the horizon!
