How can one have a heavenly day at the beach with 14 children? Clear sunny skies, warm, clear, Lake Ontario waters, clean sandy beach..How can one not have a heavenly day? Oh yeah, the 14 kids!!! Ben had to work, so did Daddy. Just packing the van is a story. Two coolers, some chairs, 14 towels, a Pampers box of food(3 loaves of bread, two packages of burger buns..),a pram, two guitars, two not so little Little Tykes trucks, 8or9 pails and some shovels, charcoal, ect,...It's a nice 15 passenger van, and there were only 1 5 of us, but the ac doesn't work anymore.....seems like once something gets broken,,...anyways, the beach is 1 and one half hours away.... When we get there, sunscreen time. I try to get all the little ones. Since it took us 'til almost noon to get there, everyone is hungry. Well, not everyone. There are always a few that are too busy playing, and wait until everything is put away, then they announce how starving they are. Charlotte Claire loves the beach. She loves the taste of sand. She likes to stand in lawn chairs, and climb on picnic tables. She likes to crawl speedily across the sand to catch seagulls. Today, she didn't take a nice nap in her pram. She laid down nicely, drank up her ba-ba, then tried to stand up. Twice. 6 or 7 hours on the beach with a supercharged crawler/walker! Compared to her, all the others are a piece of cake!!
The ride home WAS really wonderful. Clear sky,full moon. A 24 pack of candy bars to pass around after Charlotte Claire fell asleep...I really enjoyed the kids today. I won't think about the dirty towels 'til tomorrow.
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