Joe and I finally made it on our little getaway!  This year we celebrated 10 years married and had loosely planned on a tropical vacation alone.  Then the diagnosis happened and that turned into a still wonderful getaway to a beautiful house on the beach in Charleston, SC.  Then the infection happened and that turned into a 3 night getaway to local Maine.  I'm not gonna lie- initially I was heartbroken.  I couldn't even bring myself to update you here on Taste{Full} because I was so discouraged over yet another setback.  Since it was exactly around the time Joe's last chemo was supposed to happen I think I'd let my guard down and emotionally had moved on to our next phase in life.  But at the end of the day I knew that the important thin was that Joe was ok.  And if there's one thing I've learned this year it's that we can plan all we want but at the end of the day it's not totally up to us.  And I have faith that everything happens for a reason and that God will take what the enemy intended for evil and use it for good.  Quite honestly there are some people who aren't fortunate enough to get away ever.  to anywhere.  And going away is going away.  I still got to spend uninterrupted time with my boo.  And I still got a chance to miss my kids.  Cause we mamas need those opportunities every once in a while.  At least this mama does! And it made me thankful that we live near so many great coastal towns.  Because it truly was a wonderful vacation.  Speaking of coastal towns...

we stayed at The Cliff House Resort and Spa in Cape Neddick, Maine...about 5 minutes outside of Ogunquit Maine.  I highly recommend it!  Our room wasn't overly fancy but it was nice enough and this was our view. Not bad right?

A short walk to the main hotel and you have a great restaurant with ocean views, a lounge with live music on the weekends, and other stuff I didn't care much about this time around (i.e. indoor pool, hot tub, a gym, gift shop, spa services, etc).  There was a small outdoor pool just outside of our room and a much nicer, larger infinity pool overlooking the ocean outside the main hotel.  Here's that view:

There was also outdoor seating with fire pits overlooking the cliffs.  The hotel itself was just amazing and we could have easily just hung out there.  The beauty of being parents to multiple little ones is that just getting quiet hang out time is a luxury--there's really not pressure to DO a lot!  And that worked out because I'm 37 weeks pregnant and Joe was just 3 weeks out from his last treatment so we both get tired fairly easily.  That didn't hold us back from taking the hotel shuttle to Perkins Cove to do some sightseeing and walk around.  We walked a ton actually.  We walked Marginal way, shopped, ate ice-cream, and more.  It was such a fun day.  






The next day however we were exhausted so beach day it was.  Sadly the tide came in super early so our beach day was cut short. :(  But the 1 1/2 hours we got there were heavenly and afterward we were content to hang out in the hotel chatting, blogging (Joe not me!), and crafting.