We had the opportunity to spend the week before last at the beach. Oh, the wonderful, glorious beach!  We are definitely beach people.  We have two favorite options for vacations-Chattanooga, TN if we’re getting away for just a few days (I went to college there and it’s a city we thoroughly enjoy) and the beach if we’re going a little ways. In our minds, there really aren’t other options. We’re not big city vacation people or mountain vacation people. We’re beach vacation people. So, we were thrilled to introduce our boys to the beach and prayed they’d like it because most of their childhood vacations will likely be beach-related (ski vacations are tough when the closest skiing is thousands of miles away). The jury’s still out with Benjamin. He was rather non-committal in his feelings for the beach. Though he’s rather non-committal about feelings on anything except being hungry, wanting a clean diaper, and wanting to be held.  Samuel, on the other hand, was in love! And, oh, it made our hearts happy! Our little boy charged right to the water on the first day and couldn’t get enough. I wonder how much joy it brings our Creator to see us fall in love with His creation when it brings us such great joy to just introduce our children to part of it.  It was great to spend a week fully entrenched in the part of God’s creation that is the beach and we are so thankful He created it for us to enjoy.