I like this photo because it brings me right back to that trip to Maine, 11 years ago. The trip that Sweetie planned from start to finish. Every detail taken care of. An inn with a huge jacuzzi. Bike trails and a place to rent bikes. Bookstores to explore. I like this photo because just by looking at myself looking out at the water here, adjusting my cap, I also remember the sunset we shared and so many other details of that trip, like the fact that I was still eating fish then, and did, sitting across from my Sweetie, [...]
Read More in Dad, history aka before kids, Jen Writes, relationship, three kidsJune 9, 2010
Glimpse. Pause. Reflect.
July 26, 2009
Post-Vacation Blues
Real life. Dishes that have become more than just necessity. Naptimes that are more than just convenient. Rules that have reappeared. Sighs that are heavier, deeper and more frequent. Dinner plans. Tomorrow’s schedule. Work. Bills. Day-to-Day. I never thought I’d have the inclination to unplug from my life as much as I did while we were in Vermont. I’m sure that a very large part of my disconnect from the virtual world was the fact that I cracked the screen of my Macbook the night before we left. I was at the mercy of Dan’s PC: typing is not quite [...]
Read More in Sarah WritesJuly 21, 2009
Zen Update
Here’s the brief vacation update: Eleven children run around – in and out of bathing suits, rotating nap schedules and snack choices, amusing us and exhausting us – all at the same time. There are five little bodies sleeping in a tent on a small patch of grass just above the sandy beach of the lake. I am sitting on the porch listening to the waves and watching a skunk slink past us and move right around the tent. My mother is quite concerned the little beast will spray and we’ll be in a smelt-skunk funk for the rest of the [...]
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