By Betsy Stein
Easter in the Stein house is always a break from the crazy life.
While most head south for spring break, we head north. This year we’ve gotten lucky with beautiful kind-of-warm weather and the kids have had time to reconnect with each other. Here are some pics from the family trip.
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Maggie and Jonah are actually hugging in this piture. They never take time to do that at home. |
| Playing our favorite spring beach game — who can keep their feet in the ice cold water the longest. Lilly won because she is desparately trying to convince us to let her go surfing. | ![]() |
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Jonah wasn’t in a great mood at this point. He was ‘never going on another walk on the beach, ever.’ Until the next day. When he forgot he said that. |
| I love how even the older kids act like kids when we get away. | ![]() |
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Having fun at sunset. It’s cool how they all get along when their friends aren’t around. They’ve been playing badminton during the day and board games at night. |
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FranklyStein is a blog by Chesapeake Family Magazine editor Betsy Stein who lives in Catonsville with her husband, Chris, and four children, Maggie, 14, Lilly, 13, Adam, 13, and Jonah, 9.




