Winter Blahs

This is the view from my kitchen window...this afternoon. Notice how dreary...no sun.

I have to admit that I have the Winter Blues. I am tired, and can't get enough sleep.  It's almost 7pm now, and I feel like a nap! As hard as I try to stay awake, I know I will be asleep by 9pm.  Of course, my day starts at 6am...listening for teacher call offs, hoping for subs to replace them; juggling staff around if need be...and my days are full of classroom observations, staffings on child behavior problems, data entry, and more meetings than I care to think of....

Is it any wonder I want to stay home on weekends and rest! 

Forty years ago, a wise nun (Sister Elizabeth) cautioned me about giving in to the Winter Blues. (I must have suffered from it then, too) She told me that January, February, and March were months set apart from the others.  I should not make any major decisions during those months, for fear that I would make the wrong decision. 

Her answer to combat theses blues was to engage in 'projects'.  Find something you are interested in and run with it!  While it has always worked for me in previous years,  this year I'm finding it hard.

But God knows I am trying:
My ongoing project is an afgan for the guest room...

When I get bored with that I work on scarves...

This weekend I baked and baked.... a loaf of honey wheat bread, a loaf of Oatmeal Sunflower seed bread, two batches of cinnamon rolls, and Valentine cookies for my book discussion group.

When I wasn't baking, I was reading. Having finished "the Grace that keeps this World" (http://abundantgrace-peace.blogspot.com/2012/02/grace-that-keeps-this-world.html) I'm reading a good Irish novel.

But even with all that busy-ness I am still anxious for April and spring to arrive. 

 I am counting the weeks!  7---SEVEN weeks.