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Ten Things of Thankful . . . Spring Break Diaries.

Okay. I’m a midlife mother of three.

This is not your Daytona Beach Spring Break.

I have been such a terrible blogger lately. Pooh on that. So linking up with Lizzie and the fun thankful crew for my 2014 Spring Break edition:

 

 

10.   No we did not travel with the college hordes to Daytona or Fort Lauderdale.  For which I am very thankful.

Surely kids don’t go to Fort Lauderdale anymore? That probably went the way of wet t-shirt contests. Both are so 1980s.

I mean who needs a t-shirt anymore?

Well of course I do ( a very parched one ) because any other scenario would terrify all.

 

9.   We picked strawberries.

But darn that I froze so many of them already.

They are wonderful dropped in flutes full of champagne, but in your oatmeal?  Not so much.

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8.    I didn’t have to hustle everyone off to school and could lay quiet in bed for half hour after the alarm went off at 6 a.m.

Yes. If you lie like a corpse and slow your breathing down to 20 intakes per minute, you can fake the cats out.

And they won’t be making biscuits in your hair, till you get up and feed them.

 

7.     No set bedtime, either.  Which is not as much fun for me as it is from my children.

 

6.     The beach on Easter.  Rain but fun.

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5.      Daughter went in with dad to work. Thankful they both had a good time.

 

 

 

4.   The zoo.  We used to go all the time when we lived in town and my oldest was a preschooler.  I probably hadn’t been there in 10 years.

Thankfully the elephants are still elephanty.  They still have trunks and big ears and all.

 

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3.  The azaleas were still in bloom.

Okay. I’m noticing flowers and photoing them = old person.

 

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2.   Thankfully they stopped letting you feed the giraffes right as we walked up to try.

I just have gotten up enough courage to give a local horsey in a pasture a carrot. And my friend horsey keeps his tongue locked behind his teeth. This dear giraffe just looks a little out-of-my-comfort-zone.

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1.  They still keep the snakes behind glass.

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Yes. So much Spring Break fun to be thankful for — but back to the grindstone tomorrow.

Hurrah!!!

What are you thankful for this week?

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