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Ready for this week’s meal plan? After a week at the beach, I need to get myself together and work on getting our meals ready for the week!

Our beach vacation is coming to an end and I am so not ready to go home! Ok, I take that back…I am ready to see Thomas and our pups but I’m so not ready to leave Carolina Beach. This place is like my second home and I just feel so at peace while I’m here. No matter what’s going on, just being out and about in this town and sticking my toes in the sand down by Kure pier can just send a rush of calmness over my mind and body.

Some people wonder why I travel to Wilmington/Carolina Beach so much and that’s exactly why. I need the recharge. I need the break. I need to clear my mind and get it back into the grove of things.

But like I said, this week down on the NC coast is coming to a close and soon I’ll have to return back to Virginia. I just wish that I could pack Thomas up with the pups and drag them down here so that I never have to leave.

You know last year, around this time we were actually down here looking for apartments and we were planning on moving to Wilmington this summer. Things fell through with apartments and the house we were living in at the time so we didn’t get to drag that moving truck down here. However I still have hopes that one day we will be packing our bags and leaving Virginia for the last time.

I’m ready to move back to the coast. I miss living 15 minutes from the beach. I miss the area, the people, the lifestyle.

But until that day comes, I’ll just keep visiting and longing to be a NC girl once again.