We went to the beach this last week. It was great to get away. sometimes I forget what downtime actually is. I got home and was trying to figure out when to go to the grocery store and i was stumped. Well, part of this comes from my refusal to enter a grocery on the weekends. Everyone and their grandmother is there on the weekend. i don't have to, therefore I don't. But finding the time when it's not the weekend and i don't have to take an unhappy 5 year old with me, is becoming few and far between.

So back to the beach. My husband LOVES the beach. He doesn't care about the weather (thank goodness, cuz it was buck a** cold!), he doesn't care if anyone is there, he just likes to be at the beach.

We went to Westport, next time we will go to Ocean Shores, more for the boys to do. When we checked into our motel room we had to laugh. Their website definitely leaves a bit to the imagination. They moved us to a room that had a queen and 2 rollaways. We already planned on someone sleeping on the floor but by the time the rollaways were opened we would have to leapfrog over them to get to the bathroom. The son on the floor? he was going to have to sleep on the kitchen table! We went back to the front desk and said, what else d'ya got? So we got a "cabin". Said cabin? A single wide trailer! It cracked us up. If the bathroom door got left open, as boys are want to do, and the closet with the bunkbeds in it was also open, you couldn't actually walk down the hallway. But it did have a futon. Which in the Roberts' house has now been renamed "fontoon". Keegan could just not remember futon. Yes, he is nearly 13, but sometimes you just get something stuck in your head and you can't change it. So now it is a fontoon. The bonus? Wired for speakers. Hooked to the radio. So in the back room with the queen (I say full) bed the speakers are wired into the ceiling and you can have music at night. Huh. Didn't see that one coming.

It was cold. It was windy. THere was a storm with 60 mph gusts overnight. The surf pounded. But we hung out together. Jeff found the biggest agate that I have ever seen. It fills half of the plam of his hand. His grandpa will be proud. We played putt-putt in Ocean Shores and found the best little hole-in-the-wall pizza place and the lady will put in a movie for the kids so we didn't have to go back out in the rain again. We drove on the beach. something that Jack has never done before. We checked out the beach horses. We hung out.

We didn't play soccer. We didn't play baseball. We had no schedule. We went to bed when we wanted and got up when we wanted. We need more of this. More of life without such an insane schedule. Don't really know when we will actually get that. When I need a touch of it I will drag out the scrapbook and ask Keegan if he would like a "fontoon" for the new downstairs!

chell