The day we took off from everything...

Yesterday morning I woke up with this overwhelming desire to just "take off" for the day. So, after a quick call to the school office ("Uhh, Jimmy won't be in for school today, sorry!") (am I allowed to do that?! I don't know. But I figured it was more dangerous to ignore my urgings, than to let my son wag school for the day), we packed our togs, the sunscreen, and some apples, jumped in the car to the songs of "Little Bunny Foo-foo" and "I've been working on the rail-road", and took off down the highway towards the beach.

BLISS!!

Just for a special treat, I grabbed a coffee to go, and settled myself down on the sand for a morning of relaxation (hah!). The kiddies had a blast!

Clothes were strewn everywhere...

and the sight of four (I was smiling too, but I couldn't see myyyy face!) smiling happy faces was enough to know that this was the right thing to do today.

Sometimes we just need to do that, hey? We need to dig our toes into the warm sand...

...and just spend time enjoying the pure and simple things of life. It's so easy to get clogged up with the cares of this world!

There was literally no one else on the beach (they say it was cold yesterday...?? :-/) so I got to sing out to my heart's content. Songs like "Tell it to Jesus" "There is HOPE" and "God is GOOOOOD" were blasted out, with little regard to making sure they were on tune or pitch. Who cares. I was havin' fun, and spending time with my awesome Lord, in His amazing Creation!