On Friday, Jon had to start working literally as the sun rose, so I spent the day with the boys.
Alex was doing a medication trial that was pretty much a horrible failure, on the same scale as that time Nate tried Augmentin for an ear infection and screamed an entire night. This sums up how Alex felt most of the day, not to mention finally falling asleep (with us) at 11PM and then getting us up at 4AM. Poor guy.
And... despite a 5% chance of rain, Nate, Alex, and I got stuck in a rainstorm and all of our stuff got soaked, including us. Creepy creep clouds. (Please note: it was in the 70s but Alex was in such a crappy mood that he wanted to wear his winter coat.)
Friday evening crazy fog rolled in and stayed until Saturday morning.
The rest of Saturday was ridiculously awesome. Hours and hours on the beach, warm warm warm (low 70s!!!), and two kids crazy enough to swim in January.
Now that the hot tub has been cleaned and serviced, we let them warm up in it after getting in the freezing Atlantic. And after a dinner of nachos, the whole family got in after sunset. I've never been a fan of hot tubs because I get dizzy quickly. But a hot tub set at 95 on the ocean with a view of a pier and a glass of white wine and tons of stars and hearing waves crash? FAN FOR LIFE.
Sunday morning Nate woke up, refused to get off the couch, and then puked everywhere. He stayed on the couch until the afternoon. Jon and I alternated between working jobs, working on the beach house, and getting more outside time with Alex.
Between Friday being hard for Alex and Sunday being hard for Nate, it would have been easy to come away from this weekend with a less than positive attitude.
How I choose to see the weekend? We are at the beach!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel giddy with the memories we will make over the years as a family, even if some of those memories including puking and no sleep. Metaphor for life, right?
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The picture of the boys jumping into the ocean, in JANUARY, is so perfect. I love it.
And why are kids so adorable when they are miserable. I want to hug both Nate and Alex just from the way they look in your pictures.
I hope everyone is feeling better now.
I LOVE your positive attitude! It's one of the many things that makes you so wonderful. I guess if you have to be miserable, where better than at the beach??? Hope your week is relatively stress-free.
You have such a great attitude! I'll have some of that please! But seriously, poor kids. Ugh! My heart goes out to them.
Meanwhile, can you please inbox me so we can talk about Augmentin and its horribleness? Cary was just on it -- while we were in New York, no less -- and it made us ALL miserable!
Even more awesome: You get to go again and again. It's not like this one "ruined" trip to the beach was your only shot. WIN.
Cannot get over the hot tub ...love!
Cannot get over the hot tub ...love!
So much to love about these last 2 posts. First, I love that you found a way to get to the beach frequently, and that you were able to make the most of what could have been a crappy trip. Second, I think it was really brave to make the decision to stop the photography business, for now. So many people would have felt like they had to keep doing it, just because they had decided to do it. But what a great choice to think about your priorities, and why you started it in the first place, and to realize what you really want in life right now. And third, the photos in this post show that you ARE an amazing photographer, and as you said, that doesn't mean you have to make it a business. Though if we're ever in NC, you better take kids of my family. JK. Kind of =)
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