I’m riding shotgun while Tommy drives home. We rented an airbnb with our daughter Alyssa, our son in law Sam and our Sam. Our vacation location: Cape Cod Massachusetts. This is the earliest in the summer months that I’ve gone away on vacation in 8 years.
Since I’ve been working as a school nurse for the DOE I’ve worked every 6 week summer session. Most years the weeks passed rather quick and the atmosphere IMO was pretty pleasant. Of course we all counted down the days until the end of the 6 weeks, all in fun. Last summer however was brutal. I have no idea what happened. I was overwhelmed with requests for trip nurses to attend class field trips. I could not keep up with paper work *and* perform the job I was there to do. So stressful. For the first time in 7 years I totally regretted working summer.
When the summer schedule came out I decided to apply to work half the summer session. Meg is out on leave and the break between summer session ending and the new school year beginning is shorter than in the past. I was approved to work the first 3 weeks of summer until July 23. No complaints, none from me.
So…the first week of August instead of working I spent with my family. Tommy making me laugh like only he can and loving being with Alyssa, Sam and Sam. I have to admit at first I was unsure. I mean the house was lovely, plenty of room for everyone. The weather however was on the cool side even for up there. This my summer! No cool weather, no. We went to the beach Monday; very nice. Tuesday and Wednesday cloudy and lower 70’s. Okay we explored and visited a few of the many towns in Cape Cod. Including Provincetown. One day there was good enough for me.
Then: the skies cleared!! Beautiful cloudless, blue skies, 74 lovely degrees. We all hit the beach Thursday for a few hours. Friday morning comes and I declare that I am going to the beach, that’s what I am doing. Everyone else, you’re welcome to come with or make other plans it’s totally fine. Tommy was indecisive at first. While I was sitting in my car getting the directions on my GPS, my wonderful husband taps the window, “I’m coming with you.” Yayyyy!
We had a great, peaceful, relaxing day. I people watched and eavesdropped as I always do. We went for quite a few walks up and down the strip of beach. The water was cold, not freezing but way too cold for me to swim. Plus there were many seals in the water. We were told that sharks follow seals and that there were many shark attacks up there. No thanks. I’ll stick to up to the knees only.
Menay O; mom to 4, Christian and thrift shopper on the side... 