Hello my friends! It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Let’s do some catching up.
We were away last week on a much awaited vacation and it’s hard – HARD – to get back into the groove of everyday life.
Sunrise and moonset at the same time. Life is such a dichotomy isn’t it? The photos above and below were taken at the same time, just in different directions. I LOVE it.
We did a lot of sitting in the surf in our beach chairs, one of my favorite activities.
We spent an entire day at Brookgreen Gardens, which will have to be an entire post itself. If you haven’t heard of this place ( I hadn’t ), you need to spend a day here. Make sure to bring sunscreen. This is a note to myself. I burned myself to a crisp.
We ate, and ate and ate yummy food.
We played games and laughed like lunatics, swam in the pool, walked on the beach at daybreak and at sunset, looked at jellyfish close up, and learned that if one stings you to sit in the wet sand and cover the sting with said wet sand…..Thanks surfer dude lifeguard.
I didn’t post about our grocery budget last week because all the money I spent was vacation related and I don’t count that in my grocery budget. I also didn’t post what we ate last week either. It was a mishmash of cooking in our rental house and eating out. Heavy on the eating at our rental. Number one: it cuts down on cost. But number two and most important to my people: we are almost all of us homebodies who don’t like other people. Hahaha. That’s not true. Maybe.
The reality is this: we have 11 people to feed. Taking 11 people out to eat is a very intricate and delicately done thing.
- You have to allow time for all ELEVEN people to primp and get themselves together.
- You have to allow time for all ELEVEN people to be transported to the restaurant.
- You have to allow time for all ELEVEN people to be seated at said restaurant.
- You have to allow time for all ELEVEN people to order food, wait for the food, eat the food and journey back home again.
As you can see, all of this takes TIME. Time is finite and precious in my world. It’s better spent sitting around doing nothing more than looking at my most precious people’s faces and talking; swimming, walking the beach, sitting in the surf, digging in the sand, playing card games, and laughing like lunatics. Which is very, very difficult in a restaurant with eleven people.
In other news, Denton has been scheduled for an MRI next week. Say a prayer for him if you would. He is in a LOT of pain. The long and short of it is that they believe he has a blown (herniated) disc in his back. It could stem from the motorcycle and bear incident, extreme fatigue combined with 100 hour workweeks and everyday life or countless other things that could be inserted here. Life has a tendency to interrupt even the best laid plans.
I hope to get my groove back and start getting things done again. But we shall see! I hope you have a lovely and pain free weekend!
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