my journey, destination unknown
After my computer died Monday morning, we headed out down the coast to visit Pawley’s Island. At Pawley’s Island, we found the parking lot and headed out to the beach. We made sandwiches, complete with real sand. Chloe huddled under a beach towel to stay warm while Camille played. Chloe decided that it really wasn’t…
I don’t know why, but last month I just felt like I needed to get to the beach. The endless sky, endless ocean meeting at the horizon was something that I was in need of. I had thought of going to Mexico or Key West, but decided it would be better to stay much closer…
Yesterday, I managed to get enough done early enough that we headed out to the homeschool day at the Atlanta History Center. The kids were pretty excited; they love to go there. Unfortunately, the traffic was an absolute nightmare. A funeral in the middle of the highway kept all traffic at 40mph for 10 miles….
During this short break, Rob decided to work on ripping huge stacks of CDs on his computer, so he can listen to a greater variety of his music than he has in a long time. I worked on creating the 2009 version of our family website and catching up on some other journaling tasks. I…
I’ve been feeling quite unhappy lately about how little we’ve been getting out and about in Atlanta lately. Especially in these economic hard times, I think that we should be doing all we can to support the arts, music and museum in Atlanta, but I’m having a hard time balancing everything. We used to go…
As most of the family went to bed quite late, we slowly pulled ourselves together and headed out. After stopping in at Starbucks we walked to the car, parked on a distant street. Chloe had been talking about how she would love to see a cave, so when I brought up “Skyline Drive” as an…
Rob came home from DC for the weekend. While we didn’t have the weekend we had originally planned, we did have some fall fun! I was worried that we would end up spending the whole weekend “taking care of stuff,” and I really didn’t want that to happen. After taking care of a bunch of…
As I had worked so much earlier in the week, it was time to get away from the computer and do something else. After much fuss, as it is always a challenge to get five people out of the house, we hit the road to head to the Georgia Mountain Fair. The girls spotted the…
The girls have been complaining that we don’t go to the museum enough (eh, I took them to the Field Museum AND Morton Arboretum (2x) last weekend, doesn’t that count?), so they begged to go to the Atlanta History Center today. Once there, I realized they didn’t really want to go to a museum, they…
The weather looked like it would rain, so my mom and I headed out for a walk this morning. We were approached by a loose barking dog (grr) and saw lots of flowers. And made it back just before the afternoon drizzle started.
Yesterday we went down to the Arts in the Park festival. It was nice to see that gas prices did not keep the crowds away. There were lots of people there and more artists than ever! Unfortunately, it appeared that the only people making money were those who were selling food. I hope that wasn’t…
Today Barbara, the girls and I headed out to the Renaissance Festival. In the past, we haven’t gone as Chloe had a deep fear of swords. She’s gotten past that now, and now loves a good weapon. It was “Pirate’s Plunder” weekend, and the girls gathered quite a bit of pirate’s booty (not the cheesy…
I got up early and worked for a long time (3 hours?) before the girls got up — the man across the street started screaming for his dog, and woke them up. Camille helped Chloe get breakfast, then the girls made us a pb&j, carrots, pirate booty, grapes and more type lunch. (Yeah for having…
The girls have no activities this week. None. I SO wanted to go away. Jekyll again, Florida, Alabama, Texas, somewhere, anywhere. BUT, I have a release due in a couple weeks and have too much work to do to really go anywhere. Instead, the girls and I packed up the car (and Rob loaded the…
The girls and I wanted to rent bikes during our trip to Jekyll Island, but the logistics were a little complicated. Chloe can ride a bike with training wheels and Camille was saying she was worried about riding as she hasn’t done it much lately (and I don’t think I’ve been on a bike for…
One of my favorite things to do at the beach is to watch the sun come up over the horizon. This morning, I woke with the sun. The clouds rolled in as the sun came up, making today’s sunrise very different from yesterday’s. A little later in the morning, the girls and I drove down…
After we arrived here, I realized that our dinner choices were non-existant. Unforutunately, our room has no kitchen, no microwave. It does have a fridge and a coffeepot, however. At the little IGA, we stocked on bread, peanut butter, jelly, carrots, fruit, yogurt, milk and cereal. But what for dinner? There were no baguettes, no…
These crazy girls; I wonder if they have ever seen Spanish moss before? It makes for great dress up I guess. Playing with it was one of the highlights of our morning walk through the historical district of Jekyll Island. The other was a trip to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Last year, a month…
Rob took the girls up Stone Mountain in the tram … It wasn’t too windy for Chloe, according to Chloe.
What’s more fun than big rocks? The girls love this spot in the river. They have lots of fun jumping from one rock to another as the river goes surging past. I’m very happy that the weather this weekend has been such that we were able to spend a lot of time outside. We’ll have…