Babies, zoo and the plants

Hi gang! I hope you are fortunate enough to live in the midwest and was able to enjoy the freakishly nice weekend we just had. I am happy to report that a lot of cleaning happened in this house as did going thru Daughter's clothing.  We did manage to sneak some fun into our weekend too.

(But first I need to digress a moment...every now and then I have these incredibly strong pangs of "we should have had one more child". The pangs are happening less the older I get but every now and then, I really wish we had just one more. Now, both neighbors on either side of me have multiple kids: the youngest of each set is either about 7 months and the other one is just about 15 months. I know they are calling me a crack head right now for wishing we had a small one in the house. Clearly I am so far removed from the sleeplessness nights and the spitup that I am not thinking like a rational person.)

Back to my story. We picked up Daughter's friend on Sat and we all went to the zoo. It was a beautiful day, though a tiny bit chilly, but the zoo is one of my all time favorite places, so chilly or not, I was loving it! Plus, it is always nice to do family stuff. I must admit that I gooed and gaaaed at all the babies in strollers and front/back packs. They were so cute with their hats and Baby Uggs (seriously though, that is just a stupid waste of cash). We headed to the Aquarium part of the zoo and after about the 9th frazzled mom/dad that ran into me with their stroller, I was over the baby thing. I was over packing luggage for an afternoon at the zoo, over the sippy cups, over the bottles. As Husband and I sat on the wall and watched all four (ok, I know only three are mine but I treat everyone else's kid as one of mine) of our kids quietly sit on the ground watching the fish, laughing with each other and just being the kids they are, I thought 'Wow. We have finally made it". I am not clear on what "it" is exactly, but at that moment, I was there.

Sunday afternoon, Daughter and I ran some errands and she patiently went with me on my search for plants for my kitchen window sill. I really wanted some fun succulents and was able to find some at our Lowe's store (note to local people, The Scioto Darby creek nursery does not carry many house plants or succulents. The nice lady there told me to go to Lowe's). Then I wanted to find something unusual to put them in. A trip to our New Uses store proved very helpful. Daughter picked out a pair of blue glass balls (insert joke here, as she and I did!) that are candle holders, weigh about 5 lbs a piece, but were cool. And cheap. Here is the final product:

I am really happy with how they look and can't wait to find some more cool containers to put more plants in. Spring is in the air...

Hope you guys are doing well!!

Cat