1.  The Countdown to Spring has begun today — 71 days!  Hooray!

2.  When the weather gets really terrible, I always know how many days until the Annual Dance of Spring!

3.  My friends and I have tea and beautiful cookies, then we dance around a tree that is surrounded by a fairy garden, waving scarves!

4.  Here’s a Winter happiness — I have my blue fur Cookie Monster coat out now!  Yippee!

5.  When snowflakes land on it, they are suspended and on display!

6.  People make fun of my silly, blue fur coat, but I am glad it makes them laugh!

7.  And I have wild multi-colored boots!

8.  So I get a lot of fun out of Winter, too.

9.  Overall, I am grateful for weather — it is magical what happens “out there”

10.  And I am grateful to live in Ohio, where we have definite seasons to enjoy.