Day 4

(We're in #3740)

A quick description of our vacation rental: a single home, on the beach. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms. Master bedroom w/ ensuite downstairs, 2nd bedroom with queen bed downstairs with bathroom, and 3rd bedroom upstairs with bunk beds and third bathroom. Open concept kitchen and living room upstairs with 3-tiered deck (each bedroom has patio doors) which descends onto white sand beach. Also, deck is equipped with private outdoor shower.

We spent the majority of the day on the beach, reacquainting ourselves with the sun, sand and water. We scoured the beach looking for shark teeth (apparently they’re quite common on North Topsail Beach). It felt great being outside for hours on end! We loved watching the boys have free run on the beach, building sandcastles, burying my legs, and just having fun (Henry has a acquired a taste for sand, then coughs like a cat with a hairball immediately after, and does it all again). I took several mental snapshots just watching everyone having a good time together on the beach. It was so much work to get to our vacation, and is a ton of work while we’re here just because they’re so young, but I can’t imagine doing this without the boys. A wise woman once told me that you don’t do family vacations and outings with your kids when they’re young because it’s fun, you do it because you’re a family, and anything more than that is a bonus. ;)

By 4:00, the boys were exhausted. Henry fell asleep in the wagon as Ryan was pulling him along the beach (and also got a face full of wave while falling asleep...haha...poor Henny!). We rinsed them off and came inside, bathed them, fed them, and Ryan and I were looking forward to relaxing together with a beer after everyone was asleep. Minor problem: we were just as tired and fell asleep too.

Also, if you can get your bones out here this week, please do...there’s more than enough space!!

TODAY’S GRADE: Somewhere between A++ and 15/10.