{"id":1235,"date":"2012-04-19T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:42:06","slug":"spring-break-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years in Chicago, every time my spring break week rolled around, LCB and I went somewhere beachy and warm. Spring break was usually in March there, about the time we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand one more second of winter, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d spend the week basking in the sun and the ocean, hoping to avoid running into one or more of my high school students all the while. You might laugh, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve known teachers who have shown up on cruises or at small resorts far from Chicago only to find some of their students there, too. Let me just tell you, I love my students, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never planned anything remotely nefarious on my spring breaks, but I still wish for some privacy in that regard. Trust me, when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on vacation, the idea of diagramming sentences or doing anything work-related is even more nauseating for me than it is for my students.<\/p>\n

Whew, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad I got that little tangent out of the way. Sorry, it just came all quick-like out of nowhere before I could stop it.<\/p>\n

So anyway, when we moved from Chicago to an island, suddenly we were living in exactly the sort of place we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d travel to on spring break, so we began the new spring break trend of staying home and just enjoying our beach. This year was a tad different, since we are now on our new island in a house a bit farther from the ocean than our old one. This year, therefore, we returned to the old house for the break.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very strange thing to go on vacation at what was, until a few months ago, your home. That being said, it was kind of, well, cool. Other than the final steps of a spring cleaning I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working on there to prepare for seasonal renters returning, the small people and I were essentially on vacation, with LCB squeezing in beach time during lunch breaks and so forth.<\/p>\n

In no particular order then, and with no real significance frankly, we did the following:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We used the old broken boogie boards <\/a>and our beach towels to make tents of varying shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We were followed around by this little creature for three days straight. Seriously, he hung out with us. He had the most distinct voice, quite loud even above the sound of the waves.\u00c2\u00a0 I even tried to capture an audio of it to share on this blog, without success. Every time I approached him, he became mysteriously silent. In summary then, while he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t invade my personal space (a euphemism for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defecate on me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), he did nothing to notably improve my relations with the aviary species either<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Suddenly weary of beach football, the boys moved into a new sport: beach-wrestling. Unlike regular wrestling, beach wrestling involves, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve now observed, lots of laughing and sand caked everywhere on the participants.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Baby-girl honed her skills in writing with feathers, moving from writing in the sand to writing on actual boogie boards when she decided she needed more of a challenge. We have yet to determine whether she actually believes she accomplished anything with the boogie boards.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In a fit of nostalgia over his basketball season that ended a few weeks ago, my eldest set up lines in the sand so that the men of the family could practice basketball drills that involved mainly running and push ups. I have a couple of pictures of LCB doing these drills that would earn me the cold shoulder for a week if I chose to post them. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just put it this way: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not posting them, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not deleting them either.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Baby-girl convinced LCB to give her numerous rides across the sand atop her boogie board\/giant tube contraption she created. I guess that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where being naturally blonde is an advantage in life. Of course, the fact that at 32 lbs, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the lightest family member by far, may have worked in her favor as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In retrospect, we definitely got bang for our buck with our boogie boards this spring break. Even on a day where my eldest decided he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to get wet because the wind was coming in cool off the ocean, he found a way to nevertheless surround himself with water. Yes, he is his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son.<\/p>\n

What about all of you? What are your favorite spring break memories, either from 2012 or from past years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years in Chicago, every time my spring break week rolled around, LCB and I went somewhere beachy and warm. Spring break was usually in March there, about the time we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand one more second of winter, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d spend the week basking in the sun and the ocean, hoping to avoid running into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[80,1038,1036,105,1037,1033,1034,1035],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-beach-life","tag-boogie-board-uses","tag-fun-on-the-beach","tag-island-life","tag-kids-beach-games","tag-spring-break","tag-spring-break-2012","tag-spring-break-on-an-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}