Mother's Day 2009

Let's see if I can recreate my Mother's Day for you. I know it's a month late, but I've been busy!! lol

We spent a long weekend in Port Aransas. It was so beautiful and so relaxing. We had a great time! The weather was sunny and crazy hot! We stayed in a condo with a pool in our backyard and the ocean, also in the backyard, within walking distance. The condo was great! It was stocked with everything we could ever need, except for food. I hear it was much like a timeshare, if any of you have ever experienced one of those.

The first thing we did after we unloaded the car was run to the beach. Sabrina was the first one to hit the water. She obviously missed the memo that I sent out about how each child was to lather up with SPF before doing anything in the sun. Jeremy quizzed her on the water temperature. She said it was warm and I thought, yeah right, warm to who? But, to my surprise, she was right! It was warm...like bath water. For the next few days we played hard at the beach in that soft soft sand and in the warm water and big waves. Camri made a turtle and spent time looking for shark teeth. Sabrina has no fear of deep water. No matter how many times we'd get onto her, we'd still find her back in water that we considered too deep for her. She scares me a little. lol She has no fear, it seems. She actually made a little friend one day whose grandfather had a surfboard that he was helping the girls body surf on. It was really cute to see. Vanessa spent lots of time looking for pretty seashells, which were generously sprinkled all around the beach by Mother Nature. Thank you. And Mr.P enjoyed digging holes in the sand with his shovel and bucket.

We got into the routine of sleeping in, eating breakfast, and then it was off to the beach. We brought food so we didn't have to walk back for lunch. After the beach, we'd walk back to the condo and Jeremy would grill our dinner. After we ate and our food settled down a bit, we'd take a swim in the pool. Doing that in the evening was always nice because the sand was so fine, you could never quite get rid of it all and the pool helped quite a bit with that. We'd swim until the sun disappeared and then we'd make our way back inside. After bathtimes, we'd let the kids watch movies and fall asleep for the night while Jeremy and I spent our evenings out on the deck watching and listening to the ocean waves. I can almost feel the moist air now and smell the ocean breeze. It was so relaxing. We lucked out and even got to enjoy a full moon. It was really beautiful.

But, as they say, all good things must come to an end. (sigh) We stopped at a souvenir shop on the way out of town and the kids stocked up on starfish and snowglobes and polished seashells that gleamed. Our last little treat was when we rode the ferry across the water. The kids (and me too) thought it was so cool to be able to drive onto a boat that floated the car across. We watched a bird sitting on the top of a truck that sat next to us. We laughed at that bird. It seemed funny to us that he took a ride on a ferry instead of flying itself across. Lazy, I guess.

And within hours, we were home. Home to our beautiful house. Back to our usual schedules. And I'm still finding sand here and there.