When you are a mom there are things you do just for your children...It matters not if these activities will in any shape, form or fashion be of any interest to you...You are a mom, and as so must put on your super mom cape and move through your kids day with a smile and a big bag of chocolate chip cookies....

Samantha is my youngest daughter as you might know by now ....she is a pill....ACTIVE....should of been her first name.

Hi, my name is Active...yours is.....

A couple of weekend ago I took Sam to the Zoo, just the two of us...Now what you must first know about Sam is the zoo is a giant race track, once you have entered the gates it's all systems go and she is off.....She is the only child I know who can see an entire zoo in 45 minutes flat....There is no waiting around to see what the bears might be doing or talking to the birds....Sam passes by each enclosure with the speed of a bullet train...

Stopping only to refuel with pink and blue cotton candy and a extra large Dr.Pepper....(Yes I know I had it coming)Sam's favorite place at the zoo is the butterfly house...I like it there too...they have benches

Butterflies from around the world float like falling snow overhead and if you stand still one might just land on you...

No need to go to the gym when you are with Sam...even this sweet, wonderful, active child can run out of steam...and when she does it's not pretty...

Ready for a good meal and a hot bath my little Sam has tuckered herself out....wanting to be carried back to the car we gather up our stuff owl purchased at the gift shop and walk slowly step by step towards her waiting taxi, where Mom will don yet another hat and head for home...