A Family Vacation.....

....is something that my sister and i have talked about extensively since my mother passed away. We wanted to have, at the very least, a week together. I wanted "our spot" to be the beach and so the planning kinda started.

My sweet husband, picked up this chatter of talk between Claudine and i and ran with it to make it a reality.

And so, here we are. All of us. My family. My sister's family.

A wish come true.

Emma, i must say, is beyond having a wonderful, laughter-filled time with her cousins.

My husband, is doing a wonderful job of tolerating my sister and i, as we get goofy when we are together.

The only thing that Claudine and i both wish for?

For our Mama to be here, too....but in an odd way, she is. She is here in how we laugh together, how we poke at each other, how we cook together, and how we enjoy and love on each other.

I'm grateful....and very thankful for a husband who put this 'family vacation' together for us, knowing just how much it meant to me. He does stuff like this, and other 'man' stuff to show his love. You know, stuff like filling my gas tank every Sunday so i won't have to do it, making sure that i get my oil changed, and bringing home Cherry, Cherry Garcia for us to share occasionally. He puts up with many of my crazy ideas, doesn't laugh when i cook something that even he can't tell what it is, smiles at me when i come home with a $4 'treasure' (that really IS trash) from a garage sale to re-paint and best of all, loves me.

My sweet husband is a keeper...and Emma and i are blessed beyond measure that the three of us are a family. Robert is our glue and makes our lives the sweet life that it is...he brings color to me where there was none.

And of course, he does make the best pancakes ever....