Matthew and I took a bus filled with a bunch of Meredith girls down to the North Carolina Zoo. It was a lot of fun to see all of the animals and plants that are in the Zoo. I saw my first giraffe and my first elephant in real life! Matthew had been to a Zoo before but her hadn't been in a long time. We were able to walk around by ourselves most of the time and meet back at the bus when we were done. Matthew and I got all the way down to the polar bears before we had to turn around and return to the bus, and just before it started to rain!
I want to tell you all a little story about a day that I had recently, yesterday in fact! I'll start where my day always seems to start: Six am on the dot with a mouth breathing Isabella standing right beside my bed. Anyone else have one of those type of children? The ones that wake at the same absurd hour of the early morning? Both of my children have inherited that lovely trait from their father, not from me! Anywho, I could sense that she was there; standing beside me, staring at me, willing me to wake up. You know, that ability to feel someone's presence before you actually see them? Yep, that is how I wake up most mornings since Matthew left on his deployment. And so the day started! Conner was already awake as well, I could hear him 'talking' to himself in his bedroom. So in we went to get Conner up and changed to bring downstairs with us. Only problem, Conner woke up on the wrong side of the bed on this particular morning. So ...
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