Life at the Beach

It's a beautiful summers Monday and our 4 children have spent the entire 4th of July weekend in the surf and sand, leaving the waves to lap away the marks of their days. What an amazing way to spend the summer. Our 12 year old beauty has become a little surfer girl beyond my wildest dreams and her younger brother learned this weekend to boogie board on his back!
What a carefree existence and yet, they, along with their 2 little sisters (ages 2 and 4) are amazingly aware of the environment and its wildlife by living in Ocean City.
As a child we used to drive 45 minutes from home, leaving by 8:30 am, to spend long days at the beach. Lathered in Coppertone and sandy with salt and sweat by time we piled back in the Buick for the drive home before Dad got done work, I never even considered it an option to be able to live in the same town that I used to spend vacation days, as Shoobies!
I sure hope our children appreciate this idyllic existence!