Happy Groundhog's Day!

Joe and I have a tradition today. It started a couple of years ago rather informally. We meet for dinner and a movie upstairs. Dinner is grape juice, shrimp with cocktail sauce, rice, and a vegetable egg roll with sweet and sour sauce. The movie is Groundhog Day (with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell) of course! We set the children up for dinner downstairs and a "G" movie under Hannah's supervision. They had turkey hot dogs, corn, and Broccoli Au Gratin Rice. The yearly movie viewing is a good reminder to me of the transformation that one person can undergo when they forget themselves and go to work making the situation in which they have been placed or "stuck in" a better place. Winter by this point in the season usually seems too long and gray (being a non-skier and non-sledder, very pregnant). Bekah has begun to despair, "Will Spring ever come?" That little hog, Punxsutawny Phil, always seems to "predict" six more weeks of Winter. Has he ever predicted Spring right now--practically tomorrow?! I don't think so. I love one of the closing lines when Phil (Bill Murray) asks Rita (Andie MacDowell) ", Is there anything I can do for you today?" So...is there anything that I can do for you today?