…three trips to the ER in the 24 hours before takeoff. Yup, that’s right, THREE. Lov’n that socialized medicine now!!! More to follow soon.

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Im in the midst of trying to find us a hotel room. Im frustrated and discouraged and maybe the YMCA is not looking like such a bad option anymore. I’ve scoured Expedia and TripAdvisor and Orbitz and Agoda and pfffftttthhhhh, I feel like I go around and around. Its frustrating and annoying how different hotels [...]

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Since moving overseas Thanksgiving has really been about spending it with friends. Over here- thats all we’ve got. Some years we’ve spent it with just one other family, or like last year, we did a neighborhood thing which was a lot of fun (it works out great because you can have everyone’s oven going at [...]

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Well. Here we are, home again. 24,817 is roughly the number of miles we have traveled in the last 50 days. The house looks like a bomb went off. No seriously. I’ve been gearing up for the last month or so thinking about how we need to live more simply and all the CRAP I [...]

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Headed home. Anticipating a long day which may be mitigated somewhat by the fact that we’ve been upgraded. PC and I have that is. Seriously. The kids- evidently are to fend for themselves. If they don’t make the cut I’ve opted to take Nathan up to business class with me (hey- PC got to fly [...]

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So….Virginia. I can’t believe how much I’ve missed this place. All sorts of memories are coming back to me as we go from here to there. And, for a girl like me, who has no sense of direction, you have no idea how comforting it is to be able to drive around the DC area [...]

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PC just wrote me and told me he is stuck in Chicago because his flight has been cancelled. He said he is waitlisted on the next one with little hope to get on and booked on the 6pm flight. You guys…..if this happens to me…..it might be the day the world ends and you will [...]

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Folks, we’ve got a crawler. Hopefully I can get some pictures today. Currently my camera battery is dead.
For now, a few more from the trip:

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See you a few days.

Also- Happy 4th birthday Nathan!

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11 hours in the car with a 4 yr old and 9 month old was about 10.5 hours too many. My mom and I rotated between the two kids and the two of us were going batshit crazy while my dad and brother enjoyed adult conversation in the front seat. My mom and I kept [...]

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