Home from vacation!!!
We had back to back vacations this year. One week in Punta Cana without the kiddos and then one week on North Captiva Island WITH the kids. Needless to say, we had a GREAT time and came back with some brown skin. It's been 4 years since we've had a long vacation with the kids (where it was JUST the 4 of us) and we had the best time. Lots of fishing, shelling and island hopping. And...a little bit of relaxing.
Now we've been back for a solid week and the laundry is caught up and we've made it through the long 4th of July weekend.
One thing that I wanted to do this summer and that we just started working on last week is eating FRESH and LOCAL food. We're lucky in the fact that we're kinda in the country so finding roadside farm stands is pretty easy. We're on the search for the best farm stand this summer. We stopped at 6 last week alone...we had a "tomato tasting" between 3 of the stands! Anyway, it was a great week back and we had fun shopping on the "outer aisles" and farm stands and getting some really good, local fruits and vegetables. I'll post some of our menus and recipes another day.
Another thing that we're focusing on this summer is driving less. We live in a golf cart community and are able to get anywhere within the city limits on a golf cart. Since Memorial Day, we've had 20 days where we've only driven the golf cart. I'm hoping that we can get the number to 40 by Labor Day!
Anyway - this is a short post. We're on our way to the swimming pool (in the golf cart...) and the kiddos are waiting. Just wanted to check in and say that I'm still here (or that I'm back from vacationing...) and am looking forward to sitting down and catching up on all of my favorite bloggers posts!
