Spring Cleaning

Do you do spring cleaning? I do. I love it. It seems so therapeutic to me! So this morning a friend put a bug in my ear about doing a spring cleaning of sorts for the body-a detox for the equinox. Spring is typically a time when we think about birth, renewal, awakening and shaking off of winter's long cold embrace. We clean out the cobwebs that have accumulated in the corners of our houses, but how about cleaning out the toxins we've been stuffing away in our systems for the past few months. You know what I'm talking about. All the Thanksgiving turkey, the Christmas Eggnog and cookies, the New Year's Eve drinks, and the warm starchy comfort foods that have gotten us through the long bouts of gray snowy days are tucked away in the recesses of our cells. (not to mention our hips!) So spring is a perfect time to sweep it all out and start fresh. We can take advantage of this energy which transforms a brown, dormant landscape to a blooming, green vista. We can co-operate with this energy to transform our inner landscape from toxic and sludgy to healthy and vibrant.

I've decided to start the cleanse tomorrow. I was sick for quite some time this winter and went through a couple rounds of antibiotics, steroids and countless other medications which I hated to take. There's no denying I've got a bunch of junk that needs tending to. Plus this is the one area from my New Year's goals I haven't seen any progress in to date. Maybe I just need some good Spring energy to jump start my plan! What do you want clean out this Spring? And the harder question to answer...what's stopping you?!

hazards

Finished up leadership training at the hotel today. It was actually very good. They use a book called "Good to Great" that has some pretty interesting principles. We touched on it, but I am eager to read it fully and see how I might apply it to work and life in general. They fed us a wonderful breakfast and lunch each of the three days of training and I feel like I need to fast for the next week to make up for the overindulgence of this week.

The sun was actually shining here today. What a difference in attitude a little sunshine can make. Everyone seems in a much better mood and happy to see the possible signs of Spring teetering on the horizon. Let's keep our fingers crossed. I'm not sure we can handle any more snow days! Maybe I can actually get the muck cleaned off my car. My pretty new baby isn't so pretty right now. The road salt has covered up her shiny red paint with a dull white film. Yuck! She needs a bath desperately. 

I'm looking forward to having the next couple of days off. I get to spend it with my grand babies, as their parents are chaperoning a youth group trip. Riley wants to play Monopoly tomorrow...my favorite. Not really, but she likes it, so we will play. One of the hazards of being la nonna!