Summer Hiatus

So, this will be our view from the deck of our vacation house for the next week.  🙂  (Photo courtesy of the realty company.)

We never take two vacations in one year, but this year my parents rented a house on the beach and invited my sister’s family and my family down for the week.  We’re almost all packed, and I even managed to consolidate enough that we won’t need a U-Haul after all!  We did have to break down and finally buy one of those roof bubbles though…I feel thoroughly uncool now!  (Not that I felt all that “cool” before…)  Driving a minivan is one thing, but driving a minivan with a roof bubble brings us to a whole new level!  Ah, well. 

So, you won’t see me for a week.  I’ll be (hopefully) enjoying a little relaxation (with two one and a half year olds in the house, I’m not sure how much “relaxation” we’ll be getting…but I’m an optimist.)  My camera is charged, and two 2GB SD cards are reformatted and emptied, so hopefully I will have lots of photos to share when I get back. 

I can hear the waves and chocolate macaroons calling to me from here!  Have a fantastic week everyone!  Load my comments with fun stuff for me to come back to.  😉

Memiere’s Mugs

So, here are the mugs:

Our time at the apartment was even harder than expected.  My grandmother came to her apartment one last time with the family, for closure I expect.  However, I wonder if the visit did more harm than good.  She sat silently, watching her life packed into boxes, playing her stereo one last time.  She let the music say all the things she couldn’t, playing it louder when the words were particularly appropos.  She played this song the loudest of all.

Singing the Blues

When I readied to leave, she took my hand and said, “Your Pepiere is with me all the time now, in my dreams and in the day.  He’s waiting for me.”