I’m too tired to write a full post, but I did want to show you what we were up to this past week.
Great Wolf Lodge (Concord) – LOVED!
Lazy 5 Ranch – LOVED!
Discovery Place – LOVED!
We leave for Beaufort next week, so stayed tuned for the second installment of our Summer 
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
A Prayer in Spring
Robert Frost
We did a lot during our two week break.
It started off by being discharged from the hospital the day before the Carys got out of school.
We rested that weekend, as the girls spent some time with my mom and some other family members.
Then, before we knew it, it was Christmas!
I didn’t take as many pictures as I had intended…but that’s okay.
You’ll see a picture of my grandfather with most of his grandkids (and two little great-grandkids!).
The girls thoroughly exhausted themselves each day – often skipping naps and staying up late. That’s what vacation is for, right?!?
Yesterday, they chose to give Chad a pedicure (with baby wipes). They thought that was hilarious.
