{"id":184,"date":"2006-09-17T01:43:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:08:34","slug":"back-from-the-beach-and-other-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Back From The Beach and Other Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It must have seemed like a long swim \u2013 about 3 weeks or so. Actually it was a short holiday that was over too soon. By the time I arrived, decompressed, took up the leisurely pace of \u201choliday mode\u201d \u2013 the vacation was over.

It drove me crazy that my husband rushed us around doing this and doing that in an \u201cI\u2019m going to enjoy this holiday\u201d frenzy, when all I really wanted to do was sit and knit or crochet and write \u2013 but no\u2026 we had to bike 3.5ks for breakfast almost every morning \u2013 and then bike back or else, how would we have lunch after a swim in the pool, while the kids fished off the dock and we waited for dolphin to come into our little saltwater creek. In the afternoon we had to do a some shopping to buy fresh tuna or shrimp or clams (farmed \u2013 it was a month without an \u201cr\u201d) for dinner. Later, depending on the tides it was down to the beach for a little light surfing or out in the kayaks \u2013 to explore the salt water marshes. Finally, after dinner it was a quick walk up to the bar-caf\u00e9 to hear the singer \u2013 I still can\u2019t get \u201cGoin\u2019 to Carolina in my mind\u201d out of my head. On the walk back, it was \u201cname that constellation\u201d \u2013 I forget how well you can see stars out of the city – and lastly to bed \u2013 because 7-8am comes early and we repeat the same list of activities. Actually I left out Tennis- that was for my husband and the kids \u2013 I don\u2019t play tennis \u2013 that was my time to crochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who said holidays are restful? I might have actually completed my Savannah Shawl had I not had to do all these holiday things, but now that it\u2019s all over \u2013 I\u2019m glad I did. I\u2019ll finish Savannah \u2013 maybe after Christmas, when we start dreaming of better weather. I am still not happy with the results. Maybe it has to “sit” for a while.

Actually don\u2019t mention my complaints about an over-active holiday to Lucy Neatby. And the next time you take a class from her, ask her what she did for a holiday in the summer of 2006. I am in awe!

The reality is that work is busier than ever. The garden is full of weeds. The temperature now struggles to reach 20\u00b0C. I have just spent most of my \u201cfree\u201d time booking after school activities – break-dancing and remedial math \u2013 do you think there may be a connection? \u2013 for the youngest and an Art program for the oldest which is actually my 91 year-old father. My answer to the sandwich generation, this year, is to get involved. I\u2019m taking my father, who is much better \u2013 walking now without a cane \u2013 even danced with the physiotherapist \u2013 to a painting class one day a week.

On my free time, I plan to sleep! Enjoy

Carol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must have seemed like a long swim \u2013 about 3 weeks or so. Actually it was a short holiday that was over too soon. By the time I arrived, decompressed, took up the leisurely pace of \u201choliday mode\u201d \u2013 the vacation was over. It drove me crazy that my husband rushed us around doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}