I’ve been in a funk. Just couldn’t get myself together. Couldn’t motivate myself for anything. Even scrapbooking was just totally unappealing. The house was a mess, the kids were watching too much tv, I was just feeling blah about everything.
You know what’s the perfect fix for a time like that?
VACATION.
Yeah baby. My husband and brothers all decided to take a bike trip down the Oregon/California coast. They planned to ride about 120 miles a day. (snicker) Pretty lofty goal. Something to really shoot for. And something that sounded like a horrible family vacation to me. Spending my days corralling 4 kids by myself while waiting for him to finish riding so we could move to another hotel just wasn’t my idea of fun. Then, somebody had the brilliant idea of renting a beach house so that we could hang out and vacation, but not have to follow the ride. The women and children would go there first, then the men would stay meet up when their ride brought them there. As it turned out, by the time we went to the beach house (my vacation started a few days later than Dave’s), the men were ready for a break and headed over early.
It was so fun. So nice to hang out with everyone. That was the first time our family had been all together in one place in years. It was nice to hang out in a home bigger than mine with all of my favorite people. 
Eating meals together, playing with each others children, taking pictures, talking…good stuff.
While I can’t say I’m all gung-ho and motivated, I’m not in the funk I was. Hopefully I can ride this high tide as long as I can before sinking back into another funk…
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I am fairly sure if you logged onto AIM more often, you’d jump out of your funk — oh yeah, and don’t over-schedule yourself, silly!
oh seeing this really makes me know i need a vacation. so glad you had a good time. three cheers for camp funk-be-gone!
That sounds like so much fun Shannon! The background of the photo looks breathtaking. I wish I could visit your part of the country sometime, I’m obviously not around any ocean…just lots of big lakes and rivers!
Thanks for letting us crash at your house!
Oh wow, that would take me out of my funk for sure! Good for you, your family is beautiful- can’t wait to see some good layouts!
WOW - when you said we rented a beach house for a couple of days I thought for just your family not YOUR WHOLE family! How awesome. I am so glad you did that!
Isn’t Bodega Bay awesome? We rented a place there on the beach for a scrapping retreat and it was the best vacation ever.
Isn’t it fun hanging out with family?