2011 beach trip, in video.

I sat down to finally write about our beach vacation and started flipping through the 1300+ photos.  I quickly became overwhelmed by both the memories of such a fun trip as well as an artificial sense of pressure as to which ones to pick to post.  Silly, silly, I know.  So instead, I decided to try out a video scrapbook.  FYI, it's about 3 minutes long and there is music (Ingrid Michaelson's Sort Of).  Here is our vacation through my lens.

xoxo, Sandra

A bit of beach.

We are back from the beach.  Days ago, actually, and it was wonderful.  Of course it was also demanding.  But realizing that the boys will neither stay young long nor need me as much in a few years keeps things in perspective.  Deep breathing helps as well.  And chocolate.  Thank goodness I packed chocolate.

Truth be told, my boys did great.  Amazing, even--there were just challenges getting them to settle down each night to sleep as sharing the room with littlest one was a new frontier.  Will was like a hot potato, tossed back and forth by his brothers as to who would "get" to sleep with him.  It also wasn't ideal because, similar to last year, the vacation began with Team Parent down a man.  I drove up alone with the boys and Charlie came in at the end of the week.  But I really cannot complain about the trip up.  In fact, to describe the success of the outbound drive, I need only share with fellow parents that we drove 3.5 hours straight, no stopping--despite no one napping and one false start/turn around because I forgot something.  An entire suitcase, to be precise.  Of swimsuits!  When we were heading to the beach for goodness sake!!  How does one do that, exactly?

I took my new camera and took nearly 1,300 pictures--I blame the fast-fire mode as I averaged three frames for each shot when the kids were in motion on an amusement ride.  I still need to go through them and hope to post a beach recap this weekend.  That is my fair warning that it might contain a lot of pictures.  So if you are just here for the crafty, there are more project progress reports on the horizon for next week.  But this week--well, I've been busy trying to keep the closeness going.  It is semi-working.

Happy Friday!

Sandra

Narragansett.

Narragansett designed by Thea Colman of Baby Cocktails; yarn is The Plucky Knitter Merino Lite, Narragansett colorwayConsidering it is entirely possible that I will be wearing this sweater nonstop come fall, I figured it prudent to get everyone used to seeing it.  I love this thing.  And I daresay it loves me right back as it was a bit of a therapeutic knit.  Details on my Ravelry project page.

Okay, enough already.  Happy Friday!

Sandra

p.s.  By the way, all but one of these shots were taken by either Leo or Max while dodging Will's grabby-grab-climb-a-leg-cling-to-a-leg maneuver.  I was impressed.

p.p.s.  Headed to the beach, same one as last year.  Planning to cast on for a simple, lightweight cardi as my second sweater for Luvinthemommyhood's KAL--you should join, too!  I came across the beach sweater from last year...it was my second sweater.  I had no idea then (okay, maybe an inkling) how addicted I'd become to sweater knitting...