Yes, this will be us flocking to the beach for this Memorial Day weekend. My organized beach house will become chaotic with a multi-generational gathering of my friends and my children's guests. Yes, my floors will be sandy, wet towels will adorn every door in the house and the barbeque grill will probably never shut off! Would I trade this for a quiet weekend by the sea? No way! No matter where life's journeys take my two children, you can guarantee that Memorial Day weekend will be spend at the beach.
There will be bocce ball tournaments on the beach. Not to mention wiffle ball and football. We will make sure my husband does his stretches beforehand to save his hamstring. Diving catches into the ocean. We will scramble when the "beach badge checker" comes by as our 8 seasonal beach badges will not go very far with our house full. There will be exursions on the bay. Weekend-long tennis matches. Bike rides to the lighthouse. There will also be time for quiet relaxation on the beach noses in summer reading and old magazines.
Showers in the outside shower, hoping you don't lock yourself out. Yes, even 22 and 24 year olds still vie for "first shower off the beach". Our house will be in a frenzy with everyone trying to get ready at once. This year both children will initiate their "significant others" into our Jersey Shore. Aromas of perfume, hair products and yes, aloe, emanate from the room the girls are getting ready in. Watching the boys get ready is quite another matter . . . shower and they are done, trying to figure out what is taking the girls so long.
There will be potluck barbeque dinners with more guests than available dinner plates. We'll watch the sunset over the bay and maybe have a glass of wine or two. Actually, we will definitely have the wine. Somehow, simple dinners just taste better in the salt air . . . not to mention the wine!
As we honor those who have served our country, we cherish spending time together this weekend. It will be the busiest weekend of the season for us. Actually, probably not, but we'll enjoy it anyway.
In the words of New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen . . . "cause down the shore everything's all right." And it most certainly is.
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