{"id":9795,"date":"2013-07-01T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:24:41","slug":"counting-down-the-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/counting-down-the-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting down the sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are piles of clothes stacked up for each kid- making check lists in my head- older boys need more swim suits, need to buy new goggles for the pool, things like that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9797\" title=\"5cce132523ac3a0692c580ada986a6d0\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/5cce132523ac3a0692c580ada986a6d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/5cce132523ac3a0692c580ada986a6d0.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/5cce132523ac3a0692c580ada986a6d0-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love this idea- we have a big container full of cool rocks that washed ashore after a storm in Topsail a couple years ago. Then another one full of shells from our last trip to Holden. I love to see a little bit of North Carolina in my home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9798\" title=\"57e9bf51a7350fcaf2e158687a87a2a1\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/57e9bf51a7350fcaf2e158687a87a2a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/57e9bf51a7350fcaf2e158687a87a2a1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/57e9bf51a7350fcaf2e158687a87a2a1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am having small twinges of missing Port Aranasas, but I know cousin camp can handle new places. And I am happy our travel time will be much less. Traveling with Eva still isn&#8217;t the most fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9799\" title=\"75577c3c8e47807a9ecf716839db3c4e\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/75577c3c8e47807a9ecf716839db3c4e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/75577c3c8e47807a9ecf716839db3c4e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/75577c3c8e47807a9ecf716839db3c4e-600x408.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/75577c3c8e47807a9ecf716839db3c4e-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love the Outer Banks. It&#8217;s not quite as quaint as Bald Head but there is a ton more to do<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9802\" title=\"2626164123_50e48312fe\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2626164123_50e48312fe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2626164123_50e48312fe.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2626164123_50e48312fe-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9803\" title=\"img5427811\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img5427811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img5427811.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img5427811-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to getting out of gutted house for a bit as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9800\" title=\"a4735b3d8a4f9b6581ec2dd63e914813\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a4735b3d8a4f9b6581ec2dd63e914813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a4735b3d8a4f9b6581ec2dd63e914813.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a4735b3d8a4f9b6581ec2dd63e914813-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So very true&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are piles of clothes stacked up for each kid- making check lists in my head- older boys need more swim suits, need to buy new goggles for the pool, things like that. I love this idea- we have a big container full of cool rocks that washed ashore after a storm in Topsail a couple years ago. Then another one full of shells from our last trip to Holden. I love to see a little bit of North Carolina in my home. I am having small twinges of missing Port Aranasas, but I know cousin camp can handle new places. And I am happy our travel time will be much less. Traveling with Eva still isn&#8217;t the most fun. I love the Outer Banks. It&#8217;s not quite as quaint as Bald Head but there is a ton more to do I&#8217;m looking forward to getting out of gutted house for a bit as well. So very true&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,20],"tags":[755,498,725],"class_list":["post-9795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach","category-travel","tag-cousin-camp-2013","tag-north-carolina","tag-outer-banks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/f8b8ef4ad0ae44d09c835136188dcfbd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17654,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions\/17654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}