Dondie and I took the kids on our first family vacation! Since we enjoy people so much, especially friends and family people, we have always traveled either
with friends or family OR to go
see friends or family. So we dared to be different this time and spent four days with just the five of us. Oh it was incredibly fun. What a blessing to spend time together, away from the busyness of everyday life, enjoying the Lord's BEAUTIFUL creation!
We were in northern NC at a friend's cute-as-anything mountain house, "Bear Bottom" (thank you, thank you, thank you), and did LOTS of fun things such as: hiking, canoeing, BBQ festival-ing, driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, marshmallowing (as Charley calls it), star gazing, etc etc etc!!
We also had some great family laughs by rolling down big hills! At my grandmother's funeral two years ago, I distinctly remember one of my uncles saying that his mom (my grandmother) had taught him how to roll down hills. This made him really emotional because it was just one example of how she had been hands-on with her sons and didn't sit on the sidelines and watch. Anyways, that story really stuck with me, so when the kids (and Dondie) wanted to roll down the hill, well... I just had to!! Oh it was fun! But... cue the two-hour episode of nausea! Who knew rolling down a hill was like riding the Gravitron at the State Fair!! Haha.
