Despite my best intentions and a lovely picture in my head of hopping around the globe with nothing but backpacks and a sense of adventure, not having a local “home” is rough. That $%^&# is hard work! If Thailand taught me 1 thing, it was that we need a base of operations. It could be…
“Ouch! Direct hit! Nailed me in the arm!” Me to Evie. We were in a game of dodgeball-lite, using little green apples we found on the beach. Me to Scott, “Incoming on your 8!” He narrowly avoided a lobbed apple from Jack. The beach is a 5-minute walk for our little rental in Holetown Barbados. …
I turned to Evie {seriously}, “If those monkeys get in here, you are going to throw your ice cream and run like hell. Got it?” Evie, with large eyes {equally seriously}, “Yes mommy. Got it. If those monkeys come in here I’m gonna run as fast as I can with my ice cream to get…
Ker-thump. I was off the bed, scooping Jack up from the cement floor in less than a heartbeat. Even though he’s a monkey, Jack was in a little bit too much of a hurry to climb the ladder to the top bunk. Evie, who was already on the top bed, later told us, “I saw…
Sitting in the restaurant on the beach at sunset drinking my second beer, we’d been there a grand total of 2 hours, the vibe was settling into my bones nicely. The tide was out so the coral was exposed and the kids (and only our kids – no other kids) were happily playing in tide…
