We made it!! We made it to Waskesiu for the vacay our family has been counting down to for so long! We booked this vacation last year, when we had had SO much fun and couldn’t handle the thought of not going the next year. Everything looked so different last summer. We were pregnant with an entirely different person who we were expecting would join our family the following January. We had joked back and forth that, maybe I’d be in the early stages of pregnancy with yet another baby in time for our next trip here! As you all know, it was very shortly after arriving home from our wonderful, peaceful, healing time away that we found out we had lost our precious baby. What did we know? Not a blessed thing, thats what. It was awful. The last thing on our minds was calling Waskesiu and cancelling our trip. And its a good thing, because the timing of this trip feels just perfect. I’m so thankful to be here at exactly this time, with exactly these people. What a wonderful opportunity.
I’ll admit, I had a few “Why are we doing this again?” moments over the last couple of days. While I was incredibly organized and have been slowly preparing and setting things aside for a solid week now, there was just SO much to pack. Nine days away with seven people requires a lot of stuff, and while I don’t love to overpack, I’d so much rather not have to fork over a fortune out here for basic stuff just because we forgot. But guys, we’ve been here for about five hours and I’m already so content. Almost Wavy-level content, which is saying something!
I will say, however, that the wifi sucks so pictures are taking forever to load, hence the late post. But I don’t love always been so far behind with pictures and doing a big photo dump at the end of a trip, so I’m going to try really hard to keep up with them and accept that the posts will just be later in the days. Lake time, guys. Lake time has NO deadlines, haha!
Todays play by play goes like this 🙂
Everyone got up, ate breakfast, and got dressed. Dekker and Brady accidentally wore matching shirts.
Then we threw some fresh sheets on the bed in preparation for a friend, but the kids put them to use right away, because naturally, our fresh bedsheets were for their benefit.
I bathed Wavy after the kids had finished breakfast but while Brady was packing the back of the van. It was close to a tear-free bath, which I’ll take! She was probably happy with herself knowing she was peeing in my sink. But thats cool. Baby always wins.
Then I peed, and she watched me 😑 #momlife
I got Wavy dressed and ready for the day. The moment the kids saw her all fresh and curly, it was over. They touched her hair until it was solidly flattened again. What can you do? Prove it with pictures, I guess!
Our van has never been packed this full, but we got on the road around when we planned to with a bunch of happy, excited kids!! Poor Ro is SO hard to see back there, yet he manages to be SO cute still!
When we finally arrived at our destination, the owner wasn’t there to let us in. She was about twenty minutes away :/ So we listened to some tunes and fed Miss Waverly. She liked it.
The great unpack began!! The kids solidly explored the place before settling on the futon in the middle of the living room and getting their baby snuggles on.
Pre-bedtime walk, and the biggest fail of the day so far! Somehow, our first family selfie from our much anticipated lake trip does not include Laela! I’m so sorry, honey!! We LOVE you! But SO WEIRD how you’re somehow not in this picture!! You were RIGHT THERE!!!!
Our evening walk was short and sweet, and easily put out a few of our group. Wind has that effect oftentimes. It was a quick transition from outside to jammies to bed, and I’m ready to join the rest of the gang and snuggle in to sleep. But first, the fight with the wifi continues. And it could be worse, but I have a husband beside me, and a Wavy completely cashed out on my chest. I’m so content already, even with the wind and the chill in the air. Lake life isn’t really about the lake itself. Its about the atmosphere.
I LOVE it here.