Last night Michael had to work late so I enlisted the kids to keep me company on my walk. So, off we went into the green landscape that is my home. Well, green to me. Prolly not so much to someone from Ireland or something. We were walking along, Ian with Pagan, Zach casually bouncing a ball as he walked and Matt just kind of talking. He talks a lot these days. You'd never know he used to be a quiet child. It was really great and only got better when we saw THIS:



I'm like, "Oh my God! Look at that BIRD! What is it!?!?"
Zach, with knowledge that bewildered me, pipes up "Mom, that's a blue heron"

Me: *dumbfounded* "well, holy crap... a blue heron... how COOL!"

And then it started to rain. We walked home in the rain. My dog looked a little worse for the water. Me? I felt great.

I am so happy.