Ok, since school started a couple of weeks ago we have been in overdrive. Our list of "things to do" has gotten out of hand. Between church responsibilities, church activities/meetings, work, housework, carpool, scouts, service projects, school projects, running, etc... our lives have been insane! We have not had one day in a month to just be together and Sept/Oct are looking the same so when everyone had the day off for Labor Day we reserved it to be a "family day" so we could just take a break from life and enjoy being together again. We decided to disappear (we even turned our phones off, and didn't check email that day), we did what we had to do to fight the chaos from consuming us. We had a homemade breakfast for the first time in almost a year, then drove 1 1/2 hours to a secluded zoo in Greenville, SC and just casually walked and talked and played.
Tanner was a kick that day.
Did you notice that Tanner isn't too close to the chicken pen? When he got dressed that morning, he came down and told us that he was wearing a belt so that the chickens wouldn't pull his pants down. We were so tickled by his seriousness that had to fight laughing. We had been to that zoo before but he was only 2 so we didn't think he would remember anything. He obviously remembered that there were chickens and they tried to peck his clothes, shoes and toenails.
Just outside the Greenville zoo was a huge playground with lots of fun things to play on. Some of them were very modern in design but to kids a playground is a playground.
Oh how I miss the simple life! How nice it was to just relax and take it slow!
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