fun in the sun

Like I said, this trip was pretty perfect. I keep looking back at Instagram to try to relive little bits of the goodness: early (well, earlier than they used to be) mornings with the babies, walks to the ocean via Starbucks, laughing babies, crawling babies, meals outside, amazing weather, time to read a full book (!), and SUN. Glorious sun. There's something magic about the way the sun feels on your skin and hair after a long winter...the way it gets inside you throughout the day, and keeps warming you when the ocean breeze turns the rest of the evening cool. It's too good.

More than all of that, it was the goodness of bringing my own daughter to the exact place that's been an oasis for my entire life. I got to sit in the grass studying her eyelashes and chubby arms, laughing at my hilarious nieces in the same crab grass that made us wrinkle our noses as babies. I got to introduce her to her great-grandma, who has a picture on her dresser of her holding a baby who looks a lot like Mollie, taken 26 years ago.

Quite frankly, I didn't want to leave. Thank goodness we had Darcy and Will on the other end of our return flight! They're the only two who could tempt us back :).