A place to dream....

Our "stuff" arrived last Thursday, and after two weeks without our own beds and 5 days without any beds here at the house we were all very excited when Jack our  driver from United pulled up in his tractor trailer. It was kind of neat seeing him in Seattle, and reconnecting with him on this end, he's the one who told us about the Buffalo in North Dakota.  Jack does not seem like a real emotional guy, but, I wanted to hug him when I saw him knowing my bed and the rest of my bras (2 is not enough) were in the back of Gertrude. He named his truck Gertrude (maybe I could have hugged him?) and she has over 1,000,000 miles on her! This may or may not be why she broke down and arrived 4 days later than planned.

After a few days of unpacking and having Anna Grace throw massive amounts of packing paper around our home we set out to feel out our surroundings.

One evening after dinner we just happened upon this beach just a few miles from the house. It's hard to imagine we have an opportunity to live so close to sights like this.

Day after day we found beach after beach all within short drives of the house. Eli asked if we were on vacation and this is exactly how it feels. Salty hair,  reapplying sunscreen (because we finally actually need some) to sandy skin, and filling the cooler each morning has become part of our daily thing. My kids love the beach and there is nothing we love more than watching them do it. We have found our place.

And at the end of the long warms days I get the job of cleaning out the cooler, fishing out those  juice box straw wrappers and washing out sandy water bottles - BPA free of course. And I really don't mind a bit, because all the while I get the view out of this window. And when you see this out your window you just have to slow down because it just seems stupid not to. At a window like this you have big revelations about what matters in life and it becomes really clear that it has nothing to do with what your countertops are made of or whether or not that pile of laundry is folded up there....It's a place to dream and breathe and I love it even though the sink is kind of cruddy and the sprayer thingy doesn't work.