Hey, friends. Soooooooo… I have a confession to make. Last week, when I said we’d spent the weekend hanging out with old friends? What I failed to mention was that we did said hanging out in DC, on our way to the Outer Banks for a family vacation. And that the reading I was hoping to get in would be done with my toes buried in the sand!  (As longtime readers know, I don’t like to broadcast when we are out of town, either together or individually. I have been posting pictures on my private Instagram account, but that’s it.)

Anyway, we are easing back into reality now. It was a sun-drenched week on the beach and I definitely still wish I was staring at the crashing North Carolina surf. And while I read less on this trip than I did on similar trips before kiddos, I did get a lot of reading done – a surprising amount, really, considering the two tinies. I finished up DOOMSDAY BOOK, BROWN GIRL DREAMING, and THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP, and started CROSSING TO SAFETY and my pick for Roofbeam Reader’s Austen in August event: LOVE AND FREINDSHIP (Jane’s juvenilia). Further progress on both is expected this week.

And  with that, I’m off to sort through pictures and imagine myself back on the beach. Vacation recap posts begin on Friday!