Pleasant surprise that the storm that went through on Sunday night didn't stick around on Monday. Ellie went to clubhouse but Nick wasn't feeling it. It was going to be field Olympics but the field was flooded, it turned out to be beach Olympics. Ellie won 2nd place ribbons for 2 events. We were able to spend a couple hours at the beach. The water was nice and we were able to be in it for a few hours. By the time we got home, it was time to wash up and start dinner. Ellie has been my helper in the kitchen this past week...my sous chef. Ellie went to play games at clubhouse and Nick, Rob, and I went into Menards and Walmart. We were looking for a couple odds and ends and ended up finding a couple odd DVDs in the check out bin. We picked up snorkel sets at Walmart for the kids. Nick was so excited.
Tuesday was cool. Much more a fall temperature day than July. Appropriate, though, for Christmas in July at clubhouse. Ellie was flying solo again. They made stockings in the morning session. I got our big rocks painted and I really like how they turned out. We heard the waves from the house and knew there was a rip current but we told the kids we would try it out. When we got to the beach, the last of the people on the beach were clearing out. Too wavy, too cold, brutal. We went down and told the kids they could sit on the sand or go into their knees. Nick got pulled under but Rob was right there to pull him up and Ellie proclaimed it too wild for her. We were at the beach for maybe 5 minutes. When we got back to the house, I went into cleaning mode. I washed the floors in the dining room, hallway, front porch, and living room. Rob assisted me in refilling my hot water buckets and pre-treating the trim. It was a great day to do it because it was only about 70 degrees outside and the wind was so strong the floors were almost instantly drying. Ellie helped me with taco Tuesday dinner. Nick agreed to go to clubhouse for the white elephant night but bugged out on the walk there.
Last night got down to about 50 degrees. The first night of vacation that we were able to have the windows open upstairs. The kids asked for a blanket! It was still on the cooler end today. I got all our laundry washed and our towels. Ellie went to clubhouse to do their tie-dye t-shirts for the carnival. Nick helped clean up the basement. Rob went into Menards to buy a new ceiling fan and light bulbs. Nick had pulled the light switch pull completely out of the living room fan. Rob installed the new fan before lunch. I made the beds and worked my way downstairs. We had lunch and decided to get on the road because it was too cold to be a beach day. We cruised through Michigan and Indiana...slowly crawled through Illinois. We unpacked and went to visit Mom and Dad and the boys and then did our grocery shopping. The kids really missed playing with Mom, Dad, Tony, and Matteo while we were gone but I guess it was good that we were gone since everyone was sick. I was able to pick all our salad fixings from the garden - love it! The kids played for hours outside tonight. It was dark by the time Nick finally came in from catching bugs with Rustine.
It really seemed that we were away for far more than a week - good thing or bad? Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree
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