Actually Livin' Life

After my "reflection" day yesterday- I decided to actually live life. It was crazy to me that I needed to convince myself that yesterday was going to be the!best!day!ever! to get my ass up and moving. I guess it was the mindset/motivation I needed to get myself going, and turns out the damn thing actually worked!

I checked out of social media and blogging all day and just lived life. It was glorious. I took O&G to the zoo. We had not been much this summer because it seemed when we had free time it was always on days it was over 100 degrees. So I said screw the heat- were going! It was fun! So much fun!

I mean don't get me wrong. If you have kids every moment has its snag, but overall it was a great trip. Really great. We had not had a chance to get to the zoo since Sting Ray Bay had opened in June, so we took full advantage of it. It is so wonderful to be able to go to the zoo on days when it's not busy. There were ZERO lines. I greatly appreciate my ability to enjoy zero lines with them, instead of Saturday madness being my only option.

The girls L-O-V-E-D Sting Ray Bay! If you live close to the Columbus Zoo, you should absolutely go to Sting Ray Bay! It is sooo worth the extra $2 they charge you to go. So worth it. Gracie started naming the sting ray's "Momma", "Daddy", and “babysitter" all based upon size. By the time we were getting ready to leave she had re-named them "the king", "the queen", "the princess". It was actually quite cute. She would get beyond excited to see "the king" swim up to her. "He" was the biggest one.

After we regrouped at the food court {it's amazing how air conditioning and food can re-fuel us}. We headed to feed some birds. I don't do birds. I try to bypass it most trips to the zoo because for whatever reason they freak me out, but it was Olivia's special request. It wasn't too bad and the girls had fun feeding the birds nectar.

Also I hate petting zoos. I brave it for the girls, but I really hate knowing I am walking all over shit disguised as cute animals. Gracie kept calling the goats "camels" and Olivia would get irritated with her. They can fight over anything I tell ya. I made them take their shoes off in the car. Am I overreacting? Or is it a justly feeling I have for the gross germs that roam on the floor of petting zoos?

 All in all I hope we have more days like this these next few weeks of summer.

Happy hump day!