Okay…I’ll be the first to admit — Nico and I both forgot it was Valentine’s Day until we were headed down the street and saw a lady selling flower baskets on the sidewalk. : I ‘Seems like things have been so busy lately, that we’ve even forgotten the day-of-week. In a sense, remodeling and money woes have taken over our lives. I know we’re not alone!
When it comes to making ends meet, our ends are quite frazzled these days. For this reason, it’s especially wonderful to escape to the beach with our little’n. Of course, when we’re out on the East end of the island, Baby starts directing us towards one of her favorite parks: Nixi’s Pirate Play Park…as we refer to this particular playground.
It’s a nice escape from the chaos of restoring our vintage caravan, no matter what day of the week. Even though the wind was…
Okay…so it’s been right under our feet practically the whole time we’ve been islanders — an adorable ‘fit for a fairy tale’ play park village just a few streets over from our little Caravan abode. Nico set out one day with Baby in tow, pedaling down the road because we had one restless little toddler and Mom (that would be me) needed some much-needed time to herself.
A while later, here he comes down the road, and I could hear Baby protesting in the distance. She was obviously not too happy about something. So…he pulls into the driveway, and that’s when he began to tell me about the great play park discovery. I guess this is what I get for going ‘straight there and straight back home’ when I’m out and about. : /
I guess I just couldn’t see the forest for the trees! ‘Happens to me a lot. : )
Who needs the Fountain of Youth when you have a Toddler and a positive attitude! Feeling young, and staying young, is as easy as remembering your own childhood. Here’s how I rediscovered my Inner Child…(click on pic or link for more).
We moved to the island last year…on a wing and a prayer; hoping we could make it work, blind to the struggles we would face. Because of many financial hardships and our rather modest (to put it nicely) means, we’ve learned to become quite creative with how we entertain our toddler. Free family fun is the norm for us; a very simplistic way of island life. It has made us better people and parents…all-the-more.
Now, with the holidays behind us, we have welcomed our first new year as full-time Islanders. And because we love the ocean and the beach so…we felt compelled to go shelling at one of our favorite family-friendly spots along the coast. This particular stretch of Galveston Beach is a place we have come-to-call ‘Nixi’s Pirate Play Park’. In our opinion, and Baby’s, it is the best little park on the island! We highly recommend it to any visitor or local.
The first day of this new year might’ve been a bit dreary, but we didn’t mind! To us, it was a mystical and adventurous family outing of treasure hunting and shelling along the big seashore: so many discoveries we made that day! It was a time–a memory–of new beginnings and priceless moments that we pray 2014 will bring even more of…to our little tribe.
Blessings & .V.. to you and yours in this New Year…and always!
Forty Something Parents 