Brandywine's blog: "Challenging!!"

Cruising through a chilly windy wet saturday with a cozy cup of hot coffee, I stopped in midsip. I am so freaking glad it's not winter outside right now. I am so grateful for spring, summe and fall. Those seasons are way too short in Canada. Those seasons are way too short to spend angry at someone or something. They are way too short to spend indoors all day. Yup, we all need to remember the colder months and start to enjoy the time here and now. On the verge of a full blown summer, we are teetering closer to the dreamy days of the best season in the world. Summer. All too often it seems summer goes by so fast and we are sliding down that slippery slope towards fall and then winter again. That heavy handed season of cold, harsh struggle to survive. So back to my coffee and the milk and sugar I put into it this morning. I am going to go outside today and enjoy the chilly cold wet saturday on the cusp of summer, because at least it's not the grand daddy of winter months right now, January.

A Wee Story Challenge (otherwise known as Flash Fiction. A given word limit and a topic.) Topic: Liquid Word Limit: 125 words. “Every hundred drops of rain and a hundred more are not equal to the kisses I want to give you everyday.” I stood outside and waited for that first drop. I felt icy butterflies in my stomach and I looked down at my rounded belly and sighed. Suddenly, a spasm doubled me up in pain, but I couldn’t go in yet. I had to feel those hundreds of kisses first. The first drops finally fell and then a gush of hot liquid down my thighs. Still I needed the rain. Every time it rained he would take me outside to stand and just feel it on our bodies, this even before he knew about the tumor growing inside of him and his baby inside me.