I love the Minnesota Zoo and basically grew up there as it is just a half a mile from my childhood home. I even went to high school at the zoo school, an environmental studies school located on the zoo property.
It had been about four years since I had been back and with all of the baby animals this time of year, it seemed like a good outing for Heidi, Terri, Sara and myself. We went on Good Friday, and apparently the idea wasn't all that original. I have never seen the place so crowded! And then it started raining...pouring, really, which just added to the pandemonium. And then I lost Heidi's son. He had been holding onto the stroller, but then I guess he wasn't. I had just been boasting that I felt so maternal pushing a stroller. Heidi found him, crying and being helped by another mother. Terri said, "how maternal are you feeling now, Bec?" I replied that I was overwhelmed with guilt. And all three moms agreed that guilt is the chief maternal feeling, so I'm truly on my way to becoming a mama.
I still feel guilty for this whole episode. Maternal guilt. How do you get over that one? (You'll note maternal rhymes with eternal, so I'm not all that sure it ever goes away.)
The picture above is the only one I took. At this very moment Sara was sprinting with Ruby trying to get to the next covered area.
3 comments:
Ah, Becca, this is only the beginning!!
If you and I and Park ever visit the zoo, just let me push the stroller, k?
;)
Oh Bec-have no guilt! Isaiah is fine and hasn't mentioned it at all-he is just enthused by the idea that tall Becca is having a baby! Let's do the zoo again soon....and see more animals. Isaiah described his zoo experience as fun, but we didn't see many animals. Funny.
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