Spring...yet???

Is it Spring yet? I am so ready for it! I am ready to do my spring clean-up...ready to garden again...ready to rollerblade while the boys ride their bikes... ah, yes...
I have been once again consumed by cookbooks... This past weekend I made a tomato,onion& basil tart with my own tart shell. I was grinning from ear to ear on making that tart shell! I also made some chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing from scratch & there are none left so they must have been good.
I am gearing up for my comfort food party on Friday...just a few couples, mind you, but I need to plan my menu.. It goes something like this: brisket in the crock pot with a brown sugar sauce, individual small beef bourginon pot pies/with puff pastry, shrimp scampi, & wings...oh & corn muffins.. I have been experimenting with desserts for weeks so something will stand out by weeks end...those cupcakes were good...
I really have not spent a lot of time thinking about my back..must not be hurting! Only thing I wonder is when the Doctor's office will send me my packet of information..I'm still on the early side but hey, by the end of March, I'll have only 4 mths to go?? I do have to confess that once again I had a dream(or nightmare) about waking up in surgery. There was no one there...where was everybody? So there that left me up with the birds this morning! I unfortunately can't control my subconscious..can I?! I do think of others that I have met from the forum who have had the surgery & are recooperating. I send them all my prayers & wish I could hug them all but that would hurt.. so I'll send them cyberhugs today (to Pips, Kat & Suzy in CA.) I can only guess what toll this all takes on the human body...& mind but don't let it take your souls!!!
Quote from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet...And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy... page 52.............Ly