A thousand words aren’t nearly enough to tell you what this picture means to me. I know it looks like a sweaty, watered-down pink lemonade and a blurry salad, but to me it means 10 years worth of summers on Hilton Head Island. So even though my head has leftover fog from real life back home still swirling and smoking and clouding the view, I am purposing to remain in this moment, the one I’ll be wishing for in about two weeks while standing knee deep in laundry. What moments are you choosing to live to the hilt? Share them with us by linking up below and let’s unwrap our Tuesday together.
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i’m going to link up with this tomorrow, i promise. it’ll just take me a while to get the photos up and ready. hilton head sounds perfectly lovely and just like something wonderful from a book i read. maybe i’ll get to go there someday.
you mentioned in your last post you’d been writing a lot. so, what are you writing? is it a secret?
Hilton Head sounds delightful. We’re vacationing this week too! I hope yours is as peaceful and relaxing as ours has been so far.
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Enjoy your vacation! May it be as lovely and in the moment as possible–and take you far from the fog of home!
ahh… a memory to keep vacation alive. something to float back to in the midst of life overflowing with the everyday. a perfect gift!
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I have never heard of Hilton Head, and yet it sounds heavenly. I love being in the thick of vacation mode and thinking, this is the way life should be lived…
Enjoy.
Looks like a delicious meal! Glad you enjoyed vacation.
So glad you had fun on your vacation, Hilton Head is so fun! I loved linking up last week, decided to do it again!
A summer day with yummy food at Hilton Head – sounds delicious.
okay first of all , I am so thrilled that we are kind of thinking along the same lines of blur and fog. Summer is draining and fulfilling all at once.
I hope you savour every moment of your holiday and every soggy salad.
I’ve linked in today.. although the laundry still awaits
We took our kids to Hilton Head last summer for a family vacation. It was our first trip there. It was the best vacation we have ever taken. If we were close enough to drive instead of fly we would go back their every year.
Oh your image just oozes vacation Emily!
This week I linked up to my other blog – because I felt the message behind it needed to be read by more women. Note, my “gift” wasn’t in the *bathing suit* so much as the reason behind it.
Certainly made me think, and grow as a woman… as I did something I so. didn’t. want. to. do.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Grateful for the chance to unwrap today!! Thanks!
~Jen
Getaways…good books…very tempting.
Will be checking out Daisy Chain – haven’t had a good read in a while.
Just a short one, but it so totally fit! Hi, how are you today?
I found your site from Heather of the E O. What an awesome idea to “unwrap” our Tuesdays.
Love it. I linked up today.
Love your beautiful blog design!
What a wonderful sentiment for us to reflect on. We need more “vacation” moments in our everyday lives. ENJOY!
Ahhh, Hilton Head is on my list of places I want to go to. Everyone who goes there has such wonderful memories!
I’m glad you’re living in the moment today. I think your sweaty, watered-down lemonade looks pretty stinking yummy.
I love this idea! Love it! My entire blog is based on the idea of remembering the little stuff. I really really hope I can remember to do this next Tuesday!
I had been thinking I would link my “What Makes Me Smile” post with this all weekend!
And I WISH I could go to the beach! I am in dire need of a beach vacation. Actually, I’m in dire need of ANY vacation!
Thanks again, Emily, for doing this. This morning I have laughed and cried and been encouraged and convicted by so many of these posts. Thanks, ladies, for linking up and sharing yourselves with me.
i’ve been going to ocean city maryland since before i was born, and i got to go again this year after seven years of being gone from it. i haven’t been able to post those pictures yet (we’re not there in sequence) but when i do i’ll link up!!
Love visiting your site, which I found through a friends.
Your writing is so engaging. and your pictures fabulous..
blessings to you and your sweet bunch.
~amber.
emily, you left me startled with your kindness.
I thank you for this sharing you provide for all of us here.
To a life full of breathless goosebump moments..
I always love reading your blog and checking out your beautiful photographs…especially on Tuesdays…I am going to have to start linking up.
It sounds like you had a marvelous vacation! Happy 4th! God bless.
Dear Emily,
I hope you’re having a wonderful time at Hilton Head. We’re headed for Kiawah next week. Amazing what a little time at the beach can do for your soul.
I was just wondering–have you chosen something to read? I for one would love to know what you’re reading. . . and what you think about it.
Blessings,
Richella
I grew up visiting Hilton Head and we just love it – haven’t been the past few years, but when our kiddos get a bit older I hope we start the tradition back up, it’s such a lovely spot!
we’re only a couple hours from hilton head and go there for day trips sometimes!! i’d love to see a post on your favorite things to do there/around there