Is This What's Known As An Epic Pail - I mean Fail?

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As I finally get back to this, I see that it's been too long - AGAIN.

Google is killing me.

I have to log out of everything I do in life to post here, then start all over again.  I logged into Blogger and watched all my labor that I had open disappear.   You might say, just log back in and open them all up again...

Ha.   I repeat, a  BIG, FAT, HA!!!!

It's not just 'out of sight, out of mind' but if something disappears from view where I can continually keep my mind fresh, it's like a black out in my brain cells.  My neurotransmitters fizzle, then burn up like a fuse that turns to ash right before the whole thing blows up.

Once, I prayed for amnesia...  You know what they say.

.... what do they say, anyhow?

Once, I prayed for amnesia... You know what they say.

.... oops.

We took a vacation we've been saving up for years, and boy, did we need it.

We spent a very quiet week on Hilton Head Island.   This is the sunrise.   This is what I look forward to the most.   Being down on the beach, in the water, watching the sun rise and standing in wonder, awe, and amazement at God's glory.

I say with some guilt that we wanted so much to visit with very dear friends while we were there, as well as having them come over for a day.   But when we got there, we just shut down.   We did not know just how exhausted we were until we laid aside our stress, tensions, to-do lists and just let go.   We spent the entire week pretty much without calling or texting anyone, but just hanging out together and swimming, boarding, biking, tennis, puzzling, reading, eating, sleeping, rocking, and all the other things you are supposed to do on a real vacation.

We did end up doing 15 miles on the beach one day.   My seat is STILL sore!

On another day we biked across island to the big touristy spot, but all we did was buy some cold drinks, sit on some chairs, and watch the yachts come and go in the harbour.   We did not even buy a souvenir.  

HOORAY for being BORING!

And now we are back home and we still often imagine the feeling of that water around us as we just relaxed and let the waves gently roll past.   Many wonderful memories.

I did find this very cute and light summer dress with scads of flowing skirts.  I wear it all the time at home.  I still feel like I'm in the tropics.

 So the skies have been magnificent lately; all blue and puffy.  Just like Spring loves to be.

I could not resist and expanded little garden in addition to the three tomatoes. It's doing very well.   Just some summer squash, bell peppers, and cucumbers.  I keep it small as we could be asked to leave at any moment, but it's just a little bitty one.

Here's to Spring's first tomatoes!

~Faith

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Low Country Shrimping and Crabbing

It was an amazing week! These four peds signify a sisterhood forged over the internet. The two bigger ones are mine, and the dainty ones belong to Keri, my dear friend whom I'd never met face to face until this week.

Keri, her husband, and their three children welcomed us with open arms, even paying for our gas to come and stay with them. Keri and I spent the first two days working on putting down on paper the agreement my husband and I had come to over the phone, then we spent the next few days just enjoying each other and the family, there near the Atlantic Ocean.

I will tell you up front that after putting in two weeks and incalcuable stress, not to mention hundreds of dollars, my husband emailed me afterwards and said he was changing his mind. He was no longer going to let us stay living there, he was going to force me to go to work, put our son in school, and he had no intention of supporting me beyond 3 years, despite the fact that I've been off the job market since I was 20 and have no ability to support us. LOL

So all that work, time and money was wasted, but the trip was a blessing.

The boys all went shrimping and crabbing several times. And we cooked them all. I learned hot to make crab cakes. How come I am the only one whose mouth ends up cut when eating them?

Here are a few of the shrimp. Apparently you behead them while alive. I'm glad that job was not mine!




The crabs...






Then putting into a pot of boiling water, setting them onto the deck for a cooling spray from the hose. The kids quickly got to work getting the meat off so we could enjoy dinner.



























Faith