I have Spring fever!!!!!

I am tired of cloudy, grey and cold days. I love "Carolina blue skies". I love sand. I love warm breezes on my face. I love watching my kids play in the ocean. I even love playing in the ocean myself. My kids get the biggest kick of their 40 plus year old mother jumping over waves and diving under "the really big ones". They especially get a kick when I occasionally "wipe out". Full blown wipe outs, I mean head over feet ones. I love listening to music on the beach. I love family walks down on the beach. I love wearing absolutely no make-up for an entire week. I love my dad loading up the trailer with endless supplies and mom loading up the food. I love the smell of suntan lotion. I love that my children share the love of Wilmington with me. The place where I grew up on the sand. They love it. They have made friends and can't wait for another summer to return to spend weeks upon weeks with them. I love the enormous amount of flip flops that gather at the front door each year. We love riding bikes at the beach, around the block, around the lake, finding new spots to talk about. I love my memories of mom swinging on the front porch swing for hours and dad tinkering in the garage. I love the sound of the lawn mower starting up early every Saturday morning. My kids love to fish. They really love fishing from the neighbors boat. They love watching Corny kiddie movies on the lawn around the lake at night with the entire community. They love playing "rolla bat in the side yard". They love hiding Easter eggs for the adults and watching us run around like chickens to see who can find the most. We have had Easter at the beach for the past 15 years. We don't even have one single basket, egg dying supply or one piece of Easter grass here in Charlotte. Everything is there in the closet at the beach. They love going to the beach because my moms cooks really good meals for them every single night. We have adults cook and kids clean rule at the beach and they don't seem to mind. They love Easter weekend, because it's when their dad goes every year to purchase the first "Britt's donut of the season" Britt's has been open for over 50 years, making the same donut. Simple donut, but extraordinary. They love Britt's. I have so many memories of the beach that I could go on for days. As you can tell, I really have spring fever, beach fever and whatever fever takes me to the "beach house". I love summers with my family, my kids and friends. I love the fact that I will have two sets of tiny toes to put in the ocean this summer. I can't wait to have Parker and Whit grow up at the beach like my children have. I love hanging out with Teri, Kemp and their children. Kemps parents have a house across the street from my parents and the summers spent with them are irreplaceable. Teri's children made such an impression on Lindsay and Chip last summer. Playing with Whit and Sophie on the beach sealed the deal for them that kids were in their future. Love me some Whit and Sophie!!! I love family pictures on the beach. Everyone in position and me running to take my place in the growing number of people that I adore, while they all count down until the picture flashes. It is funny every time. I love working "from the field". It's what I call it when you call me with a Chick-fil-A question and you hear waves crashing in the background. I know in the years to come we will no longer have this beach house to love, but for this spring break and this summer vacation. We do! And I am going to enjoy the mess out of it. So, if you start to miss me this Easter weekend, spring break or anytime this summer when the temperature is over 75 degrees , you will probably find me on the sand with my parents and kids.