Labor Day with the Fam

We just returned home from a long weekend at the beach with the family....which consists of me, Dave, Shelby, Mom & Dad, the 2 nephews, my "adopted" brother, LL, his wife and their son. I, of course, left the camera plugged into the computer at home so, alas, no pictures from the weekend. The beach pretty much looked like this.

It was HOT. I don't do HOT. I ventured out at 6:00 a.m. and at 8:00 p.m. and that was it. The rest of the time I sat by the window listening to the waves crash and stitching away while Shelby snoozed at my feet. This was, of course, in between bouts with wild little boys doing hysterical things like streaking through the house wearing nothing but a towel...which was being used as a cape, not a covering....or stomping through the living room singing "bomp bomp bomp...another one bites the dust"... or begging Aunt Sisa to please fix me a jelly sandwich on circle bread (which is a hamburger bun for those of us not used to speaking 5-year-old).

I did manage to get a lot of hand work done. I finished the binding on 2 quilts, finished stitching 3 wool blocks of the month and finished 1 .5 Nice People Nice Things stitcheries. (I'll post pictures later.)

Which was the best part? Never knowing what those little boys would do or say next to make you cry laughing...but knowing that laughter was going to happen any minute and often.