Blessings Expected and not Expected
How many years have we marked the end of summer by spending a week at the Outer Banks with as much of our family as we can? Three out of four grown children have usually been there. The grandchildren have grown from two til now there are 8. They range in age from 1 1/2to 10 1/2. Each year we marvel at the variety of their abilities revealed in their play as well as in their conversations. Saturday we arrive and the next Saturday we leave with sand in our shoes and gratitude in our hearts The week of Labor Day attracts many to the resort and many leave together clogging the lanes of traffic as we continued with our pattern of stop and go driving. Home lay a short distance ahead when suddenly at what may have been 20 miles an hour our heads were suddenly jerked as we were rear ended. Not exactly the way I'd choose to end a vacation.. There was a place to pull off of 95 while we waited for the state trooper who interviewed both motorists. That morning Steve had mentioned to all o...