Stupendous Storm

Doughnuts. 50 to be exact. The munchkin type. Chocolate, glazed, cinnamon, and powdered. Three sippy-cups filled with milk. The sweet smell of sunscreen kissing our skin. We were half naked (weird). We were beyond thrilled (yahoo!). We were determine (crazed?). It was 70 degrees in the middle of June (unheard of).

Hello Ocean.

Sometimes I wonder why I even try to plan ahead. Cody hid at Oma’s house while Savannah, Rory, Ryder, and me went to the beach last Friday. It was 100 degrees the day before, so one would think I planned this perfectly to hit a 70 degree and sunny…wait…not so fast.

Rainy day. Nowhere on the radar was there a drop of rain. Yet here I was huddled in the front seat of my car after lugging three large children and their stuff to the ocean’s edge only to have the winds pelt sand  on soft shins and the rains pour down from above. We decided to make the best of it.

Break out the munchkins!

‘Cause what’s better than learning how windshield wipers work. How silly it is when the automated voice command phone system responds, “Pardon?” when you babble weird sentences at it. Or how harassing family with endless texts and pictures showing them how much “fun” we are having at the beach can be.

We gave up waiting for the storm to pass and they played in the rain regardless. Thoughts of the beaches of Normandy in WWII came to mind as they army crawled from dune to dune yelling “I live!”.

My fear of being caught by the life guard was realized as an overly tanned dude in a windbreaker drove up. Revealing only the aviator glasses through the peep of his hood, he laughed as he is placed the “Water is Dangerous” flag up. He saw us “joyously” playing between the sanctuary of the dunes (and thankfully not getting mad as the kids continue to dig near the “stay off dunes” sign) and yelled “there’s dedication!”. You betcha.

We had fun regardless of the storm. They laughed. They fought as any close cousins will do. We lugged junk. We ate doughnuts. We covered ourselves in sand and rain water. Mission beach day accomplished.