Stepping Heavenward

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
Psalm 40:2

We're Back!
Jul. 1, 2008

We had such a wonderful visit with my grandparents in North Carolina. I miss them already! But, it is nice to be home. There's nothing like sinking into your own bed at the end of a long day after a week away from home. :-)

One really neat thing we did this week was take a sailboat ride 6 1/2 miles out into the ocean to visit Cape Lookout.

I had never been on a sailboat in the ocean before, and it was amazing.

The first half of the sail out was pretty rough. About a third of the passengers were sea sick! Poor things!

John spent the sail out in this:

I thought he was so brave! You couldn't have paid me a million dollars to get into that net, but he loved every minute of it! Every time we would crash down, he would get completely soaked! He's a salty boy and does his sea loving relatives proud. :-)

Here are the boys at the base of Cape Lookout:

Aren't they teen-tiny?

We ended up returning to land through an inlet and under motor rather than sailing back over the open ocean -- I think that it the only way the captain could get the sea sick passengers back on board! The captain said that only 1 out of 25 sails were like that and it was what sailors referred to as, "Good Sailing", LOL.

On the homeschool front, I am itching to get planning for fall. I have had the pile of boxes full of curricula sitting in my living room since I opened them! All of my bookshelves in the school room are packed full and I have nowhere to put any of the new stuff. What to do, what to do......

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It looks like you had a wonderful vacation. Gorgeous photos!
AcceptanceWithJoy - 8:55 PM - Jul. 1, 2008

Beautiful!
Looks like fun to me! I spend my NC time in the mountains... this makes me think the drive to the ocean would be worth it!
closertofree - 3:19 PM - Aug. 29, 2008

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He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
Psalm 40:2

We're Back!
Jul. 1, 2008

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He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
Psalm 40:2

We're Back!
Jul. 1, 2008