Vacation!!

This year we did a full two weeks at the beach! I was beside myself to have so much time off. It’s always a little stressful for me to be away on vacation which is a little weird, I know. It’s being out of routine with an autistic household that makes it uncanny at times. This year, too, the middle is at college, so I was missing her.

So, this was a rather eventful trip! Every year I’ve gone to the beach, several times a year in some cases, and I have lived on the coast my whole life. I know that when I am in the water that there are sharks all around me. I know they are there, and are really not interested in me. However, this year I saw one — right next to me — twice — and I pretty much freaked out about it. I don’t mean close to me, either, I mean, this shark was inches from me. I didn’t stay in the water, but Mark did. We had three people get jelly-fish stings, too. Lots of marine life activity on this trip!

The weather was pretty perfect the whole time we were at the beach. We didn’t have any hurrricanes to worry about this year, so, the whole trip was awesomely great. Now, I’m just trying to get us all back into school and dance routines for this school year! Katie is a sophomore in highschool (gulp), and Tommy is working. Mark is in graduate school and I’m still a teacher, I guess:) Danielle is a freshman in college!

The whole gang

Sometimes, a break in routine looks like a vacation at the beach with your family that includes some of the people that you get to choose to be in your family. God is just awesome that way!