Staying Above Water

Hi faithful readers - all 4 of you! I know this blog has been sadly neglected for a couple of weeks, but I plead "new job overload." I started my new job on Monday and it's been a massive amount of input into my brain, and very little time for thinking straight otherwise. I have a lot to learn, but I'm hoping it will be a more exciting and rewarding gig in the long run. But right now I feel I'm barely keeping my head above the water.

In the meantime, Molly and I had a great mother/daughter trip to the zoo last Friday. Yes, we were just there a month ago, but they actually opened a new exhibit in the meantime. I have some great photos of Molly in the new aviary exhibit, but I can't get them off my camera for the time being. But they have a new exhibit where you can get a stick with birdseed on it and the beautiful canaries will land right on your stick that you are holding. Awesome! Molly is still too scared to get that close to the birds and animals, but I sure had a blast! She did, however, enjoy running around in the little prairie dog hill where you can pop your head up in little plastic bubbles in the hill and get a prairie dog view of the world. Molly was actually too short to pop up to the top of those; she just liked running in the tubes.

Hope to have photos up soon. In the meantime, we're eagerly anticipating a visit this weekend to see Grandma and Grandpa T.!