Staycation

Saturday it felt like we had a staycation. Josh's co-worker invited him and the boys to go surf fishing at Little Talbot Island but we all went. I thought that with Elise's previous fishing enthusiasm she would be a dead ringer for most fish caught...but what 5 yr old little girl wants to fish when there is a wonderful, albeit chilly beach to play on? I knitted...random scarf I probably won't finish but at least it gave me something to do while I enjoyed the waves.
I LOVE THE BEACH!
Why else would I go with them on our first cold snap of the season?
In the end though I gave up knitting and laid face down on a towel because I had been at the Y at 7 when it opened and I was ready for a nap. But don't you know the kids used me as a hurdle for their running races up and down the beach so I actually didn't get any sleep but it was relaxing.
I hope you had a relaxing weekend and are having a blessed week!

A Quickie

Susan needed me to pick her to take her to airport at 1 today so we had just enough time to run out to the beach today.

Unfortunately I decided this at 8:45 so by the time we got to my favorite beach (4th street...not 3rd street like I previously reported) the two available parking spaces were taken...so we went to 5th street and even though it has no shower it had parking. I figured we could walk the three houses down to shower....and we did. The surfers were out today...good waves for them but not for an 8 and 4 year old.

We just laid in the water...for some reason it reminded me of highschool and us girls sitting in the shallow water. Don't know why today of all days that memory surfaced. I love the beach. The other day I read a diet/fitness article that listed how many calories you could burn doing different activities at the beach. That was some encouragement when the kids asked me to help build a beach castle. Otherwise, I would be happy sit on my sore but. (from tone and stretch class)

After I dropped Susan off I made a quick stop at Once Upon A Child out at that shopping center near there to see if I could find a size 7/8 smocked dress. She has grown out of all of her smocked dresses and I haven't seen any in stores in my price range. No luck. She has plenty of dresses...just none smocked...and I do love the smocked dresses.