Category: family

Well, our week in South Florida is officially over. I am currently sitting in the airport in Ft. Lauderdale waiting for our flight. The kids have got their long pants on, we have jackets in hand and we’ll be back in our beds tonight. An amazing vacation. We, as a family, needed this. It’s good…

I realize I forgot to update yesterday. There goes my streak of perfect blogging! Yesterday we had a great time at the Swamp Safari. The kids got to see a lot of gators and I was pretty giddy about going on an airboat ride. We spent the rest of the day at the pool. A…

So the majority of our day was spent going to and enjoying Key Largo, FL. We took the kids on a glass bottom boat and then ate at a great place called "The Fish House." Highlights for the glass bottom boat tour were the dolphins on the way out and the sea turtle… though I…

So we did the timeshare presentation thing today. Yuck, yuck, and double yuck. How many ways do I have to say "no?" Now I know why I like 3Story evangelism vs. "selling Jesus." This guy tried so hard to sell us a timeshare and the more I said no, the more he tried harder. At…

Another good day here in South Florida. Not much on the docket except a trip to Cold Stone (Paul fell asleep and I’ll be taking him as soon as he wakes up.) We did go to church at Calvary Chapel Sawgrass and also spent most of our day in the pool. OK, so my white…

I am finding special and guiltless pleasure in tiring my kids out here. Today we spent the first few hours in the pool. Apparently this was tiring because Paul took a nap and Megan and Kristen lounged around while I took a nap. After naptime, we headed to Hollywood for some quality beach time. (Much…

It hit me sometime today between the Butterfly World and our hotel. We all needed this vacation. I have been going so hard and so fast that I thought it was just me that needed to do this. Nope, it was all of us. We all need this serious quality and quantity time together. Man,…

As you can see, I’m having a great time in Florida. (Though this guy isn’t coming home with me.) You can see all kinds of pictures from our first 48 hours on vacation in my family photos to the left.

To most, this vacation is a tiny little thing. But to us McLane’s, it’s huge. A combination of going somewhere we’ve never been before with oodles of special time with my kids… it is a big deal to me. The first hours have been great.   We got to Ft. Lauderdale , rented a car…

It was our second trip to the beach and we had been there for a long time when Kristen remarked to me… “There sure are a lot of guys in Speedos here.” For about 10-15 minutes I was starting to wonder about that new craze of Speedos in our great country. But as we were…