Life's a Beach

Promise

our 1000 Homes of Happiness story

Southwold Beach- September 2012

I recently posted about a unique blog that I follow called 1000 Homes of Happiness. I mentioned in the post that I had requested a home of my own to be released. On a sunny September day at the seaside, George, Adam and I collected treasures from the beach and left them, along with the Happy Home 'Promise' for someone to find. Below is our Happy Home story…..

We originally asked for a Happy Home with the word 'wish' on it to release with some balloons on our wedding day, but due to worries of litter and harm to farm animals, balloon releases we decided against the balloon release. The word 'promise' was chosen to symbolise the promises Adam and I would be making on the day, the promise that we would love each other unconditionally, 'till death do us part'. So when we could no longer do it on the day I was quite disheartened as I was so looking forward to the release and had brought some lovely colourful balloons for it! You can see a picture of these balloons below!
 

We decided instead to put the 'Home of Happiness' out into the world after a fun filled family day at the seaside together, one of our first family days out as "The Pattersons". It was a great day, we hired a beach hut called Aunty Bong Bong's, ate a 'mummy made picnic' made 'daddy designed sandcastles' and went on a 'George led treasure hunt' for things to leave with our little home. We were really quite successful too, we found pretty pebbles, stones, seaweed and even a starfish!!

Auntie Bong Bong's- Our Beach Hut for the day

Building Sand Castles

Surf Lesson with Daddy

 

Surfs up!

Taking the rubber ring out for a float

More sand castle building

Mark making in the sand

Mummy and George

Daddy and George

Ahoy there! George on the look out for some boats

It was so wonderful to spend some quality time together as a family. It felt quite liberating to leave behind the housework, errands and usual domestic duties that dominate the weekends normally. At the end of the day Adam and I said we would try and make time to do things like this more often. In fact after leaving this happy home, we made a promise to each other and George that we would come back to the beach and beach hut next year to make more great memories. In the meantime we promised to spend some time together once a week, just 'The Pattersons' doing something away from the house and the distraction of chores!

 Our Happy Home- Promise

I hope we can keep this promise up. It will help us to love and appreciate each other more as well as creating great memories for us all to share in years to come.

Thank u so much to Kellie and her lovely little ladies for letting us be a part of the 1000 homes of happiness journey.

Big ‘life’s a beach’ love Sarah, Adam and George xoxo