So little time! We had a slow morning and probably shouldn’t have. We had steak and eggs for breakfast…yummmm! Then Mr. FixIt fiddled around with the fishing gear. By the time we got to the bridge to fish, the wind had picked up and it was fairly miserable. We didn’t even get a nibble and after two hours, we quit. We used Mr. FixIt’s new toy. I bought him this little solar stove for cooking hotdogs out on the bridge or on the beach. You can only make two at a time, but it was so cool. They cooked up great in only fifteen minutes or so. If you want more, it’s no problem to make.

We came back to the camper for another little nap. SO decadent. We drove up to Jeanette’s Pier to see how the fishing was. We may go back up there today to try our luck.

We went to Wendy’s for a quick dinner then down to the sound side waterfront to watch the sunset. We were walking toward the observation tower when a kite surfer was walking back to take off his gear. I stopped to snap a picture and three seconds later, I was flat on the ground. I thought there was a curb in front of me so I raised my foot up to step onto it…only to find there wasn’t one. My foot came down hard and my left foot wasn’t ready to move yet so down I went. Mr. FixIt came running to help me and felt so bad he wasn’t there to catch me. Truth be told, the way I went down, I would surely have taken him down with me. Nothing much hurt other than my pride. I’ll be sore today, I’m sure but no harm done.

The sunset WAS beautiful. There was a lady there taking lots of pictures. Her son and eleven year old grandson are those two you see windsurfing in the pictures. By the time the sun went down, we were ready to head back to the camper and call it a day. Sunday night was the full moon but last night’s was bound to be gorgeous coming up over the ocean. As I’m writing this, I’m considering going back out to see it, but I don’t know. I’m pretty windburned after being out in it all day.

It’s so nice to be in a different place for awhile. It was really hot at home yesterday and they had big storms so I was just as glad to miss that. I was talking to Mr. FixIt last night. I can understand why family vacations aren’t always a vacation for Mom. She has to do all the things she does at home but in a much smaller space with amped up kids who have mosquito bites and bee stings and sunburns. And usually a husband who sits in the lawn chair reading the paper and poking the fire with a big stick. In between going around and talking to every guy in the campground about camping and fishing and who got the best gas mileage or some such thing. That isn’t much fun for Mom…but she knows she’s making memories for her family and that’s the important thing.

We didn’t really have family vacations when I was growing up save for a week visiting cousins. When Daughter #1 was little, she had to go spend a lot of the summer with her father in Kentucky and Hubby #2 was in medical school, internship & residency, and starting up a new practice. She was sixteen by the time her little sister was born then off to college before we knew it. Now, Mr. FixIt and his family went to the beach every summer and the kids have great memories of that. I regret not giving my girls that kind of experience, but our life just wasn’t arranged in a way where we could.

As we’re getting older, I told Mr. FixIt our memory dims and we don’t remember the trips we take or they get all jumbled up together. We should make a slide show with all our best pictures from our trips and watch them every summer and just stay home and save money! lol

I hope your weather has been good where you are and that you have good memories of vacations past.

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“but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.” Luke‬ ‭2‬:‭19‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Gratitude Journal Today I am grateful I didn’t hurt myself when I fell. I need to be more careful as the risk of falling increases year after year.