Last weekend we did something spontaneous.  I was feeling good so I said, “let’s go to the beach!”  So after daddy was done with paintball, we packed up hot dogs, hats, sweatshirts (remember it’s the Pacific Northwest here J), and etc.  We piled it all into the car and met some friends at the beach.

We were only there for a few hours: we played, found crabs, roasted hot dogs and smores… but it felt like a vacation to me.  I think it was the fact that I had felt sick for the last several weeks, and that we had not done anything out of our routine for a while, and that we were able to enjoy God’s creation in a way that we don’t every day. 

I am such a person of habit that it is easy for me to keep our family in the routine, but every once in a while it is important –imperative to break out of our routine and do something other.  We have a lot of fun in our routine each day (with three young boys each day is a party), but it met a need in all of us to do something so special.  Those few hours reminded me the importance of spontaneity no matter how challenging with little ones!

"A" loved the fire!

L was really good at finding driftwood for the fire.

E excelled at eating (as usual!)

You know it's good times when everyone is this dirty!

~Amy