She arrived Wednesday evening after a 3-week-long countdown from some eager little boys. Poppy must've smelled the cookies because there was no hesitation when she went right to her. On the couch, she got right up in Grandma's face and said, "Mamawww!" She's been calling her that ever since! Hilarious.
Thursday morning we loaded up the car with floaties and buckets, picnic lunches, towels, an umbrella, and a roller cart. Everyone slipped in their suits and sunscreened up and we were on our way!
We spent the day at Tybee Island, swimming, sunning, and building sandcastles. When babies were tired, sandy, and brown enough we headed home for ice cream.
Friday showers brought us to the mall for playtime at the soft area and a ride on the carousel. Then we stopped by Target for school supplies and brand new backpacks for my big school boys.
Saturday we went to Forsyth Park downtown to play at the splash park.
And run around on the playground.
The farmer's market was still going on, so we checked it out and picked up some frozen fruit pops and peaches. We lucked out on our timing. As soon as we got back home it started pouring.
Mamaw kept the babies Saturday night so Jason and I could go on a date to celebrate our anniversary. We went downtown and ate at Moon River Brewery. We walked a few blocks over to Lulu's Chocolate Bar for some amazing dessert--Jason had a B-25 coffee (kind of like a loaded Irish coffee) and I had a chocolate-covered-cherry martini (fabulous!) and we split a Milkyway cheesecake. After we walked around a little, enjoying Savannah at night and burning off a fraction of that cheesecake, we headed to the movie theater to see "Grown Ups 2". When we got home, everyone was out. All the pizza and "Lady & the Tramp" must have had them beat.
Sunday we planned to go back to the beach to tour the lighthouse, but got rained out. We took the boys to get their hair cut instead.
Last night while the boys were supposed to be sleeping, I found James wide eyed in his bed staring at the ceiling fan. He said, "Tomorrow's going to be a saaaad day."
Today's the sad day.
James has been moping and frowning since he woke up, knowing that it was good-bye day.
Poppy's called for "Mamaw" a few times.
Riley's just aggravating his siblings with the occasional, sad, "I miss grandma."
These days are always hard, reminding us how far we are from family.
So I just try to remind them of all the fun things we did and that it won't be long till we'll visit again.
And when all else fails,
there are cookies.
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