Is is spring yet?

I was reflecting on the similarities between the weather and adolscence.  There are days that I think my 13 year is a sweet young boy and then there are other days he is trying out the man voice which is like the weather - one day it feels like spring and then the next day it feels like winter and back and forth.  Perhaps the world is feeling like the weather - hard to know what it going to happen next - bomb Libya and then help Japan.  I supported Obama but he is too enthusiastic to use force which I don't support.  I find the path of the peaceful warrior much more empowering.  I have felt a pain deep in my heart concerning what Japan has gone through.  It is pretty overwhelming to think of the level of suffering that they are having to contend with.  It really reminds me of how little control we really do have and to also appreciate what we do have because it may not be here tomorrow.  I look at my two beautiful children and am appreciative of having them in my life.  As hard as my marriage and ex-husband were, I am so happy to be a mother.  The pulse of spring was bursting through my daughter this weekend.  On Saturday, she wanted to go on a bike ride, take a walk and go swimming.   I had to tell her that I needed to slow down a bit.  We did two of the three - taking a walk and swimming at the health club.  I try to honor her as much as possible but there is only so much that I can do.