Cabin fever

After our stop in Pittsburgh, we headed over and across PA to the Pocono mountains where my family has been diligently building a vacation "lake house." It's in an area that is almost a reasonable halfway point between my brother and his family up in Massachusetts and my parents who are in the southern most point of Maryland. It's also very close to where my grandmother (so, Miss A's GREAT-grandmother) lives with some of my extended family. The last time we were able to see my brother, sister-in-law, and grandmother was probably over a year ago so it was really nice to have time to spend with them during our last leg of the trip.

GG (as she is known on my side) came up with my mom and had a ball getting reacquainted with Miss A and all of her toddler-ness. Miss A entertained GG with all of her antics including telling her multiple times, "I'll be back!" and asking her "How ARE you?" but not waiting for a response. GG had a great time with it all.


In the midst of the week before my brother, sister-in-law, and the boy cousins showed up, we took in 18 holes of mini-golf. GG basically schooled us all with her amazing putting skills and never failed to put the ball exactly where she want it and in less strokes than we all did. I had no idea she was such a putt-putt shark!!! No wonder she was all ready to go when we pulled up to the place with intentions to only get some ice cream and insisted that we get out there and play!


Miss A was almost as much of a pro at the golfing except for the fact that after all of the work with the drivers and irons at Grammy and Grandpap's, I think her long game is a lot better than her short game. D tried to help her work on her swing...


...but ultimately? She insisted on just doing it HER way! *shrug* Can't say I blame her! I mean, three of my hits ended up going straight into the water and look at where hers end up!


Toward the end of the week, my brother and his family showed up and and we were able to round out things with doing the traditional Easter egg events. We colored eggs and Miss A diligently worked on doing one all. BY. HERSELF!!!


Coloring with crayons is more her kind of coloring than anything else but she even joined in on the egg dying process!


Of course, she also couldn't resist seeing if her crayons could be dyed like her eggs...


Ultimately she turned out a gorgeous piece of work and if eggs didn't do things like get old and rotten and stinky and gross, I would most definitely have saved hers forever and ever like the proud mom I am.


And just so you can see that I'm not biased or anything, everyone else there was just as enthralled by her skills as well and THEY thought she was the best egg decorator at the table!


The rest of the week and weekend we spent just hanging around, catching up, eating leftovers and enjoying the weather and each others' company.


The holidays are so nice if only because they make it possible for us to be able to get together with our favorite people in the world (our family!) no matter how far we have to travel.