{"id":3266,"date":"2010-05-05T01:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2010-05-05T23:03:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T03:03:55","slug":"my-life-is-a-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"My life is a zoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hello!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know I have been absent here,\u00a0and for good cause.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know where the time has been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">flying<\/span> to these days, but it seems each day has been busier than the last!\u00a0 Our cup has been spilling over this spring season.\u00a0 When I was uploading pictures today, it was quite clear where my time has been going (and why I haven&#8217;t shown any new jewelry in ages!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Come if you will, and step in to my shoes (my son sure did).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take you on a quick tour of what I&#8217;ve been up to lately!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3267\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3267  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip3-2010-030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip3-2010-030.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip3-2010-030\" width=\"450\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip3-2010-030.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip3-2010-030-150x267.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip3-2010-030-168x300.jpg 168w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip3-2010-030-378x675.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;..let&#8217;s see.\u00a0 I run a taxi cab service, except the\u00a0cab is my van.\u00a0\u00a0 I remember when\u00a0 my older sons were toddlers, there was this mom of 3 boys who described how she drove the kids around nonstop and just barely made it to the McDonald&#8217;s drive-through in between places.\u00a0 Now I can understand what she was talking about!\u00a0 Between the boys, we have Boy Scouts &#8211; had a wonderful field trip to Great Falls Park over the weekend- swimming, tennis, chess club and lacrosse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3268\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3268  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip9-2010-067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip9-2010-067.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip9-2010-067\" width=\"515\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip9-2010-067.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip9-2010-067-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip9-2010-067-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3269\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3269  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip4-2010-030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip4-2010-030.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip4-2010-030\" width=\"515\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip4-2010-030.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip4-2010-030-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip4-2010-030-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In between it all there is HOMEWORK.\u00a0 Lots and lots of homework.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3270\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3270  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip2-2010-008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip2-2010-008.gif\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip2-2010-008\" width=\"475\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip2-2010-008.gif 475w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip2-2010-008-150x97.gif 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip2-2010-008-300x195.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a full life.\u00a0 I\u00a0 know I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.\u00a0 I am still mindful to &#8220;stop and smell the roses&#8221;, as I discussed in\u00a0a recent post.\u00a0 In fact, my oldest son and I stopped and picked the <em>clovers <\/em>just the other day.\u00a0 \u00a0Would you believe we found <em>18<\/em> four leaf clovers!\u00a0 We also found 3 <em>five<\/em> leaf clovers (who ever head of that&#8230;and what does that mean?) I got the message loud and clear:\u00a0 I may be \u00a0kinda crazy and busy, but\u00a0I&#8217;m also very<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0lucky<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3288\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3288  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip-2010-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip-2010-001.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip-2010-001\" width=\"515\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip-2010-001.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip-2010-001-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip-2010-001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My blog title states that life my life is a <strong>zoo<\/strong>&#8230;. and today I really got to go to one.\u00a0 I was a chaperone on a <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/\">field trip <\/a>with my Kindergartener and we enjoyed the sun, some amazing animals, and lots of laughs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing what a Kindergartener will laugh about &#8211; oh if we could only be that carefree!\u00a0 Take a look at some of the animals we saw today&#8230;they seem to have the carefee part down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3271\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3271\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3271  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip8-2010-110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip8-2010-110.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip8-2010-110\" width=\"515\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip8-2010-110.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip8-2010-110-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip8-2010-110-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3272\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3272  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip7-2010-115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip7-2010-115.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip7-2010-115\" width=\"515\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip7-2010-115.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip7-2010-115-150x120.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip7-2010-115-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3273\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3273\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3274\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3274\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3273\" title=\"zoo-field-trip6-2010-088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip6-2010-088.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip6-2010-088\" width=\"500\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip6-2010-088.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip6-2010-088-150x132.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip6-2010-088-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3274  aligncenter\" title=\"zoo-field-trip5-2010-095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip5-2010-095.jpg\" alt=\"zoo-field-trip5-2010-095\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip5-2010-095.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip5-2010-095-150x129.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/zoo-field-trip5-2010-095-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by and making it through this long post&#8230;&#8230;my next one <em>will <\/em>be about jewelry!\u00a0 May you have many carefree moments and lots of laughter this week!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3275\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=3275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3275\" title=\"siggie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/siggie.png\" alt=\"siggie\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!\u00a0 I know I have been absent here,\u00a0and for good cause.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know where the time has been flying to these days, but it seems each day has been busier than the last!\u00a0 Our cup has been spilling over this spring season.\u00a0 When I was uploading pictures today, it was quite clear where my 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