Happy Spring...one day early!!!

Happy Spring Everyone!!!! Spring doesn't actually start until, tomorrow, but I thought I'd post it today. I love, love, love this time of year! Here in Las Vegas, Spring and Fall are my favorites. I can really appreicate every day and any time of year, but there's something extra special about Spring. It's filled with absolutely beautiful weather that is quite lovely during the daylight hours, the days get longer, the flowers begin to blossom and everything turns green. All is renewed during Spring and I love that! Spring also means Easter, which aside from Christmas, is my favorite holiday! I'm big on holidays and ringing in new seasons when they arrive. Okay, so I'm not so gung ho on winter, even though I was born during winter, it's my least favorite of the four seasons, although it has its perks too! Anyhow, I just love Spring! I love everything about it! The colors, the weather, the sentiment that we can all start again! It's kind of like New Year's in March/April and Easter is kind of like Christmas in Spring, but with a lot less stress!!! LOL! My mother said last night that I've always loved this time of year, and I have! Some things never change! I love the Easter decorations with the flowers, and the eggs and the bunnies; which by the way, will ALWAYS be an EASTER Bunny to me, if that offends someone, oh well. "Spring Bunny," just doesn't sound right to me. I love cooking Easter Dinner and dying eggs (yes, I still do that and will pass that tradition on to my children when I have them) and just the perky mood Spring puts me in! Apparently, I'm a very happy go-lucky, perky kind of person, so Spring is really my season if you think about it! Colin said to me a few weeks ago "I've never seen anyone so damn happy to be alive," thank you! I like that. I want that said about me becuase it's true! There are problems in the world, I admit, but my world is just about perfect! Not to sound selfish, I do care, and I'm very compassionate, but I can't fix the world so most of the time, I try not to worry about it. I do my part, speak my mind, and try to be nice and kind to all those around me, but if there's one thing I've learned this past six months it's this: you grab your happiness where you can get it!!! If Spring, or anything else, makes you happy, go ahead and indulge in it. (This theory was totally tested last night, I'll get to it in a bit...) As long as you're not hurting anyone else and aren't a cold-hearted mean person, then, do whatever makes you happy! Spring makes me VERY happy! I spoke earlier about the re-birth and renwal aspect of Spring, and I love that! It's a chance to start fresh, start over, clean out, rid yourself of the clutter and become cleaner. And I don't necessarily mean actual spring cleaning, although, that can be great too!!! Anyway, on another note, about "the live and let live theory".....I was talking with my sister, Kelsey last night and she informed me that she got her eye brow pierced. She already had her nose pierced a few weeks ago. Let's just say that I'm not all happy about it, but, I'm not her parents and she's already got two parents, so she doesn't need a third. I'm very motherly sometimes, okay, all the time, I tend to mother everyone--I get that from my mother, it's an instinct I think, but I'm working on it. Anyway, Klc goes "I know you don't like it Sarah, but hey, there's worse things I could be doing. I'm not out partying, drinking, having sex or doing drugs. It's not a tatoo, I can remove these if I want and you know, I don't need your approval." Well, it turns out we are more alike than I thought, as in, neither one of us sugarcoat anything! I love that, really! But, you know, she's absolutely right, I dislike that she's right, but it's true. There ARE worse thing she could be doing, but I still don't understand it. I really, really do not understand the need or the logic behind poking holes in an already healthy, functioning body. Perhaps it's because I spent so many darn years, and still am, trying to make mine function well enough to live. Maybe it's b/c I have 23 scars and had to go through absolute HELL to EARN every one of them. (I'm big on EARNING things if you haven't noticed). Maybe it's b/c deep down, I'm an old-fashioned old soul who just doesn't understand a lot of what goes on today in the world, but you know what, depsite all that, I love and adore my sister anyway. Klc is sincerely one of the sweetest, kindnest, most generous, wonderful people I've ever known. She is not just my sister, she is one of my dearest friends. It has been my joy watching her grow and blossom into the young woman she is today. And even if I don't agree with her every choice, well, who does? I'm sure there are choices I've made that my family hasn't always agreed with either, that's the way family goes. You fight, you argue, you disagree, but when it comes down to it, family is EVERYTHING! And I couldn't be prouder of mine--esepcially my sisters, and especially Klc! I did ask her why she would want to put foriegn objects into a perfectly beautiful, alomst flawless face, because she really is beautiful. She's got those big blue/green eyes with those thick, full lipstick lips (the lips I've always wanted, but wouldn't look right on me), and this clear skin (which I totally envy), she's just so pretty. But, so are all of my dads' daughters, he makes good looking children. We're all beautiful in our own way! Anyway, Klc said she's piercing b/c she can, it's got to be some form of rebellion although dad and Kim did give her permission. I said she's lucky she's not my kid because I would've said no. But, then again, you can't tell a teenager flat out no, becuase they'll do it anwyay. I still like to think of her as a little girl, she's not. But, she is turning into a great young woman, who despite her piercings, I think is totally cool anyway! I did tell her that I better be able to see HER next time I visit them, and not just a face full of metal, and I mean that, Kels!!! LOL! She also wants to pierce her lip and God knows what else. I hope it's a phase, but even if it isn't, well, she's still my sister, and I'll always be there for her no matter what--I'll always be there for all of my family--no matter what! And that is very cool! Well, since it is Spring (almost) I think I'll go take a walk, it's beautiful outside, a bit cloudy, but it's nice! Happy Spring everyone! Thank you Lord for everything beautiful and amazing in my life--as every aspect of it is!!! God Bless everyone!

In Love & Light,
-Sarah Liz :)