EKjourney Backup

Today, today, I want to go home... home to the too small house home where everything had a place home where things were familiar home where things were convenient home where I had more to do than I could do...but less to do than I have now home where there was some sense of order, some management amongst the chaos home where we knew some sort of rest and downtime home to where I knew where things were home to my garden home to my big kitchen home to my bedroom with a door home to pictures on the wall home to the kitties not freaked out and hiding in the barn home to the place that we had worked out the kinks home to where the character flaws of myself and others weren't as magnified home... Today, I just want to go home... I couldn't bear to look back and find pictures of our home on Silverloop so I just posted this picture that I took out the window of the livingroom early this morning.  It is lovely.  I am thankful for how beautiful it is here.

We took a day trip to the coast for a little get away excursion and to show Alec his first experience with the Ocean.   "I am ready to go fishing mom." (bailing twine and a nail).  We stopped by the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.  I loved this exhibit of marine looking lamps made wth various materials.  Crab hunting Moolack Beach Watching surfers at Devil's Punchbowl At my favorite little beach in Lincoln City.  Lunch for 8. It was SO WINDY!  The surf was rippling and the sand was blasting on our legs. Anatomical Sawyer mermaid. Will she marry a plumber?  Who knows? So tired after a day of beach play. On the way home.

Phil is on break!  I am so glad.  I feel like we have been in a holding pattern the last month and I am anxious to focus on our house and hopefully get moved in and unpacked by the end of the summer.  I am so glad to have him home and to spend more time together. Cloud watching: On Phil's last day of work, he took the children in to work to help him and they got to explore with the lego robotics. Potato gun shenanigans.   With all the children running around in the front yard, all our creatures and the neighbor horses came to watch.