The “Week of Positives” may be over but I have more pics to share. This summer, more than ever, “finding the extraordinary in the ordinary” wasn’t just a tagline to my blog.
Growing up in Baltimore, everyone I knew loved Ocean City, MD. It may be have been three hours away, but that didn’t stop my friends and I from making day trips to Chesapeake Bay and beyond. (We’d leave at the crack of dawn and get back at midnight!) Family vacations to OC always included days on the beach, hours in the ocean, French fries with vinegar, popcorn, ice cream, and salt water taffy. Who can forget the smell of salt air mixed with heat-press transfers at tee-shirt shops on the boardwalk? Who can forget collecting seashells? Who can forget the enormous sandcastles spotlighted at night? Who can forget the feeling of summer?
Living in New Jersey, we go “down the shore” whenever we can. Guess what, hon? My mom loved the beach too, and since she grew up in Morristown, NJ, went “down the shore” with her family to Bradley Beach. Yesterday would have been her 79th birthday, so this post is dedicated to her, one extremely Brave Girl.
Naomi M. Gruer 
Oh, Naomi, this made me loooooong for the days I was going to the shore when my son was little and when I was little. It’s been SOoooo many years and I wish we lived closer to it so I could go regularly. It’s been easily about 15 years. Sinful and sad *sigh* So glad you could enjoy it and thank you for sharing!!!! ❤
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Wow–that long?! A beach day is always a good day.
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Yep! My life and health haven’t allowed for it, and ironically, I could use it for my health now more than ever!
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I even see waves and the ocean in the clouds.
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Love the beach! So healing. We stayed in Bradley Beach for the first time this summer and loved the vibe (and the bakery).
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I heard about the bakery. We were going to stop there on the way home but there was a line out the door!
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