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This past weekend, Sunny and I got a chance to check out Kimmy’s new diggs.

We headed east to meet Baby Clara (a childhood friend’s newest family member) and to take some family portraits of the inaugural Family of Four. Momar and Kimmy met us in Cohasset to also meet Clara and then entertain Sunny while I snapped photos (images forthcoming later this week!). We then headed south, grabbed some dinner with Momar before her return to the Cape (to play nurse maid to my father who’d come down with her cold – she is a teacher, after all, so winter bugs are always a challenge), and continued on to the South Coast of Massachusetts.

Kimmy made a momentous career shift this summer when she decided that after nearly seven years of marine lab research, she did not in fact want to pursue a PhD and thus the life of a research scientist. She packed up her life in Woods Hole at the Marine Biological Laboratory and is now a biology and marine science high school teacher at Tabor Academy. And, sweet lord, her life is as dreamy and aquatic and beachy as ever.

I am so proud of her for making this brave change. Recognizing in herself a love of science, but particularly, a love of being with others and TEACHING others that same love. How lucky her students are to have such a vibrant, intelligent, funny, committed teacher to shepherd them through their high school years. And while teaching at a boarding school is proving to be a 24/7 job, the school couldn’t be a better fit, what with its campus literally on the beach, its shingled buildings, its amazing sailing program, its extensive marine biology lab, its Tall Ship? She even lives in the tower of an old wind mill built in 1890.

Her life is so stinking cool. And Sunny and I were thrilled to finally experience it firsthand.

^^Behold said windmill.^^

^^As I mentioned, I’m completely enamored with the morning light at Kimmy’s kitchen table. Sunny was equally as enamored with Auntie Kimmy’s ukelele that matched her outfit just so. We know what she now wants for her 5th birthday this May.^^

^^We visited Tabor’s marine lab so that Kimmy could feed her aquatic dependents and Sunny witnessed a clown fish “brushing” on an anemone  a la “Finding Nemo”.^^

^^And we watched Jellyfish eat their breakfast.^^

^^This makes me want to pick up and move to Marion, MA for my children’s high school years. And you never know… you just never know.^^