Attention Corn Hole Players: Please Vacate The Beach...Immediately!

In case you haven’t noticed, I have been MIA for a couple weeks.

A lot has been going on and I just haven’t felt up to writing.

To me, writing is final.  Writing puts everything into perspective. Writing stores everything in its place.  Writing comes easy at times. At others, writing is exhausting and emotionally draining.

This week, I’m drained.

So, until I am ready to share, let’s talk fun!

Summer is almost over (well, at least according to the school calendar)! 

Book bag – check.  School supplies – check – well, sort of!

I still need gallon bags and Kleenex.  For some reason, gallon bags are essential BACK TO SCHOOL items in this part of the country.

Lucky for me, we don’t buy our new school clothes until it gets cold – no need to buy jeans until we need them, right?  So, we don’t have to spend our time scouting out the latest fashions and the coolest kicks.

We get to spend our time working on our SUMMER BUCKET LIST. (Yes, I am one of those Pinterest Moms.  Yes, I created my kids a summer bucket list.  DON'T JUDGE!) 

Sad to report, but we had a lot going on this summer, and were unable to accomplish much on our list; however, SUMMER IS NOT OVER YET.

We usually take the kids on vacation the week and weekend just before school starts back.  There last hoorah usually involves pulling into town the night before the big day.  This year, it is going to be a little different.

We have decided (everyone agreed) to have a sta-cation.  We are going to play tourists in our own little town (except for the touristy driving part…we will obey the rules of the road). 

Waterparks, mini-golf, ferris wheels, snow-cones, air-brushed t-shirts, old-time photos, roller coasters…if you can think it, we are going planning to do it.  There is nothing like trying to cram a summer’s worth of fun into 7 days with a couple of kids.  AND I MEAN NOTHING! (Sounds like someone might need to be medicine induced.)

Don’t get me wrong.  It’s not like we haven’t done anything this summer.

We have had some fun.

Just not the kind of mind-bending, sugar overloading, wet your pants kind of fun that kids love.

We did finally check  #876 off the list this weekend though - SPEND THE AFTERNOON AT THE BEACH. 

 

I know… it’s not that big of a deal when you live 10 minutes away every day.  What is a big deal though is that we were able to actually get to the beach without sitting in traffic for an hour or so. To top it all off, we actually had room to spread out our towels when we got there.

All in all, we had a blast.

We sifted the sand...
 

We played in the surf..

We mastered the waves...sort of (see that splash)...
 

We were chased by birds...

 

And Stung by jellyfish (who knew bringing vinegar to the beach was a requirement)...

You have to look closely...

We did have to deal with a group of middle aged men playing corn hole for a while, but thankfully they left soon after we arrived.  (I don’t know about you, but I was always under the impression that men liked to drink beer and watch the babes at the beach.  Clearly, I must have been wrong.)

I am so excited for next week!!!!  It is going to be jam packed with fun and adventure.

It is not often that I get to spend a lot of YES time with the kids.  Most of the time, we are on a schedule, and a budget.

To me, the best part of the whole week will be that the kids won’t know that we are making memories; they will just think we are having fun!

Happy Summer Endings!  Send it out with a BANG!