Vacation

Newport OR, annual Labor Day cousin vacation. 

Seaside

                                                 

It's become a tradition, two siblings and their families meeting for one last summer frolic. We meet in the middle, in the state between our two homes. We line the kids up, noticing the growth spurts and hair cuts, the new faces they make now for the camera. We spend long days at the beach, reading and digging in the sand and inching out into the water as far as our frozen feet will let us. 

We play piles of board games, we play guitar, we settle into this borrowed home in these last days. Gotta bottle it up and make it last, gotta hold summer in your palm like one more fragile sand dollar. Until it's time to fold it all up, shake the sand out, and head back where things are waiting. Routines and lunch boxes. New teachers and closed toe shoes. 

And that daydream- of a beach house, and a few extra days, and the last taste of the season. 

Beach days

We are coming home from beach days, with sand in our hair and sunscreen between our fingers. Coming home from a lovely beach house filled with cousins, and long lazy days spent on towels, eating peaches and watching the waves. Coming home from campfire nights with sticky s'more faces and pile-on bedtime stories with four kids in a bunk. Coming home from the sweetest last gasp of summer. 

Vacation part two

It was just a few days ago but it already seems so far away, now that we are packing lunches and catching buses and trying not to lose our backpacks. (Brixton tried to go to bed with his backpack last night. I don't recommend it.)

 

 

But you know, there was this. and it was all amazing.

 

 

 

Catch you next time beach.

Yarn along-vacation edition

The book is 90s rocker Kristin Hersch's memoir Rat Girl. The pattern is Meghan McFarlane's Shalom cardigan. The yarn is Noro Karuta from Japan and it's divine. (silk, wool, cotton blend.) The landscape is the Oregon coast and it is even more beautiful than it looks.

Linking up with Ginny for Yarn Along.