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Jan. 22nd, 2019 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
colebaltblueI took the kids to my mom's house on the coast this weekend. It was fun.
We got in around 3pm and hung out for about an hour until the rain stopped. Then I tried to cajole everyone into a walk. After boots and jackets were on my mom and son decided it was still too rainy to go (you could see where the rain band ended to the west, it was gonna stop sprinkling in like 10 minutes!) so I took my daughter and headed down to the beach. It's about a 1/4 mile walk to a point where you can get down the bluff to the beach via public access. Daughter and I then walked the remaining mile to Nye Beach.
It had stopped raining and was really pretty out so I called my mom and told her to drive my car down to meet me at Nye Beach. It was a bad connection so she thought something terrible had befallen us so she rushed out the door without a jacket or boots! No jacket or boots for an Oregon beach in the winter?!? By then the beach was positively swarming for a Sunday afternoon in January (winter can be some of the nicest weather on the beaches in Oregon, it's not out of the ordinary to have 50 degrees and sun while it's 40 and overcast in the valleys). When she arrived I handed daughter off to her and walked another little ways down the beach with son to where the rocks were exposed due to the low tide and looked for creatures. Alas the tide wasn't low enough to see the good tide pools so we just counted barnacles and climbed on some rocks then hiked back up the path and met my mom in the parking lot.
We drove back to her place and made dinner. The kids took FOREVER to go to sleep, but daughter finally did around 9pm, right when the clouds cleared enough to see the moon. I got a sleepy but not yet asleep son out of bed and took him out to look at the lunar eclipse and to count boats on the ocean (at night with their lights, its easy to see all the crabbing boats). Then I put him back to bed.
Finally my mom and I were able to chat about what happened at Christmas. We agreed that she had made some unfair assumptions about my time and commitments with my family and what we'd be willing to do in order to spend time with each other. I said that I'd be better about reminding her that I want to be included. We also chatted about her house. We (my sister and I) can probably afford it if we can convince her husband it's a good idea. Anyway, I got this photo from my mom's living room this weekend so you can see why I love it.
We got in around 3pm and hung out for about an hour until the rain stopped. Then I tried to cajole everyone into a walk. After boots and jackets were on my mom and son decided it was still too rainy to go (you could see where the rain band ended to the west, it was gonna stop sprinkling in like 10 minutes!) so I took my daughter and headed down to the beach. It's about a 1/4 mile walk to a point where you can get down the bluff to the beach via public access. Daughter and I then walked the remaining mile to Nye Beach.
It had stopped raining and was really pretty out so I called my mom and told her to drive my car down to meet me at Nye Beach. It was a bad connection so she thought something terrible had befallen us so she rushed out the door without a jacket or boots! No jacket or boots for an Oregon beach in the winter?!? By then the beach was positively swarming for a Sunday afternoon in January (winter can be some of the nicest weather on the beaches in Oregon, it's not out of the ordinary to have 50 degrees and sun while it's 40 and overcast in the valleys). When she arrived I handed daughter off to her and walked another little ways down the beach with son to where the rocks were exposed due to the low tide and looked for creatures. Alas the tide wasn't low enough to see the good tide pools so we just counted barnacles and climbed on some rocks then hiked back up the path and met my mom in the parking lot.
We drove back to her place and made dinner. The kids took FOREVER to go to sleep, but daughter finally did around 9pm, right when the clouds cleared enough to see the moon. I got a sleepy but not yet asleep son out of bed and took him out to look at the lunar eclipse and to count boats on the ocean (at night with their lights, its easy to see all the crabbing boats). Then I put him back to bed.
Finally my mom and I were able to chat about what happened at Christmas. We agreed that she had made some unfair assumptions about my time and commitments with my family and what we'd be willing to do in order to spend time with each other. I said that I'd be better about reminding her that I want to be included. We also chatted about her house. We (my sister and I) can probably afford it if we can convince her husband it's a good idea. Anyway, I got this photo from my mom's living room this weekend so you can see why I love it.
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Date: 2019-01-24 12:54 am (UTC)And what a lovely beach walk!