It smells like spring (or earthworms)

It smells like spring now and people are smiling once again. Of course, it could be snatched away from us overnight...we could have an Easter snowstorm. Isn't that a cynical, un-spring like thought? I dragged the pitching net out of the shed and across the muddy backyard for my son and he dug his baseball glove out of the garage gleefully. When my daughter and I walked into the school today she thought the air smelled like the lake we visit every year. I mentioned earthworms.
My book club will discuss "The Time Traveler's Wife" tonight. I really enjoyed this book and thought the author wove an amazing and at the same time simple tale of life and love. One phrase that came to mind while I was reading it was "waiting for the other shoe to drop". Because one of the characters travels back and forth through time, he does have some clues about what his future will hold. So I thought a lot of the book was about waiting...which we do even if we are not time travelers. I feel like I have often spent time waiting for the other shoe to drop...is it saving myself from disappointment, a learned response, a pessimistic nature, or just being a realist?
We do have it in our power to let it go...to run outside with a nine year old's enthusiasm for the upcoming baseball season; or to sniff the air and smell the promise of summer.
This one's for you, Casey...go out and smell the lake!