Babysitting Hole

We discovered that if you bury your child in the sand....HE CAN'T MOVE. He actually was quite entertained and I think we are on to something. We will call it 'the babysitting hole'. With a shovel in hand, and plenty of sand to eat it may entertain him for AT LEAST 20 minutes.

Oh we love summer and we LOVE the beach! Our friends the Teeples organized a 'day at the Shore'. It was so fun to see all the kids running around and have time to chat and catch up as parents. It was a hot day and the sun was intense. Now our shoulders, necks, and backs are feeling the effects of it!

Nostalgia

I was driving home last night down a long country road, with acres and acres of open fields. As I looked to my right and my left and even straight ahead I saw hundreds of small illuminated lights flicker on and off. I quickly realized they were fireflies fluttering all around the fields. I was taken back to when I was 8 or 9 and would spend summer evenings chasing around fireflies with a glass mason jar or even just my two hands. My grandparents had a summer home on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and all of my cousins and I never got tired of running all around the open grass capturing our little glow bugs. Oh the memories. I think last night was one of the nostalgic moments of remembering that life is good and wanting (for just a split second) to travel back in time to when life was simple and carefree. But, life is STILL good and just continues to get better.