Welllll we are back to school as of 3 weeks ago and of course, running into everyone that we didn’t see in June/July/August. “How was your summer?” is the frequent nicety exchanged and the answer for us is always, “Awesome! Too short!” Indeed, summer came crashing to an end so suddenly that the night before school started, Ashton (12!) had a complete and utter meltdown. 45 minutes of wailing that his hair was not right, his shoes were not right, and he hadn’t done the reading he had 3 months to do. Middle school is tough, man.
But before we talk about school, let’s remember the summer! It started right off the bat with golf camp in Vermont, 4th of July in New York, and then our beloved Block Island week, which looked really different this year. Rather than a big house with all manner of family members, the Nills roughed it in a one bedroom condo with a full-over-full bunk bed. Yes. Evidence in the real estate listing and it says queen-over-queen but it was not. We just pretended our bedroom was on a submarine for the week.
Anyway, Lizzie and Owen came just for the day on our first day and then Kari and Ben did come for 4 days but stayed separately. Our crew was little this year, but the view from our condo was beautiful (and so was the weather!), and we did all our usual things starting with the Bloody Marys on the boat 🙂
The boys started off nice and hot which, who doesn’t love complaints on the first moments of vacation?
But once we hit the beach, the rest was history.
Perhaps not, but Alex is easy to ignore so I did.
Cue the surfing, eating, and the rest of the week!
It was another really good one 🙂 Readers, this was our tenth anniversary of our first trip to BI when Ashton was 2, Alex didn’t exist, and Jason had first started at Brae Burn. https://nillfam.com/2013/07/25/block-island-2013/ Here’s to another ZILLION more 🙂
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