Project Bucket List: Zoo

I bet you think by the title that I am going to be sharing all about our family trip to a zoo. Well, you're wrong.

This is one thing on the list that I feel like we lived all summer long rather than a place we went;) Between vacations, working, and regular life it seems like there hasn't been enough time. I am so ready for school to start, but part of me wonders if that will really decrease the amount of zooiness in my life (and yes, that is a word because I say so!) I have a list of things a mile long to do, but most of them tend to be things that are not really necessities so I neglect and postpone them. There are a ton of potential blog posts just waiting to be written, hundreds more pins on pinterest I should be pinning, hours of reading that I wish I could be doing, sources of clutter/mess that need organizing and a whole lot more that I could be doing. However, I made a choice to spend the last month of summer giving in to the zoo and now I feel "behind" on all of those things. 

But, before you go on thinking that I haven't enjoyed this zoo I should tell you that I have. I have enjoyed it very much! Days of not ever paying attention to what time it was, moments of pure doing nothingness, and hours of laughter and fun. All those "to-dos" will still be there, or at least replaced by other ones, but these moments of craziness are only here briefly.

Some modified words from one of my favorite children's books sum up my summer:

The children grew. They grew and they grew and they grew. They grew until they were 2, 3, 10, and 12 years old. And they never wanted to come in for dinner, they never wanted to take a bath, and when people would come over to visit they would always say bad words. Sometimes their mother wanted to sell them to the zoo!

But at night time, when they were asleep, the mother would quietly open the doors to their rooms, crawl across the floor, and look up over the sides of their beds. If they were really asleep she would hurry out to eat ice cream with daddy, fold some laundry, clean up a mess, balance the check book, work on a bazillion projects, get some much needed "me" time, kiss their cheeks and softly sing them this song:

I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living,

My babies you'll be!