SWEET! I Got a Hit from Brisbane Australia!

My blog follower thing-a-ma-jig tells me someone in Brisbane Australia checked me out a few hours ago. That means my brother and his family are getting settled a bit. They even updated their blog after a wild month or two trying to sell off all their things (furniture, cars, house, etc), pack up the rest and move to the other side of the world. I'm so excited for them and jealous at the same time. Heck, we took the job in Virginia so we could go overseas. Four and a half years later, here we sit. Fortunately, we're pretty happy sitting here. It is absolutely gorgeous this time of year in Virginia. We love our house, our school, our church, our commute, our patriotic city, our neighbors, our huge field out the front door, our creek, our lake, our apple orchards and our friends. It will be hard to leave if the opportunity ever does present itself. I'm not 100% sure I'd still say yes, because my life is just to close to picture perfect. For now, I'll happily live vicariously through their experiences and be totally excited for their big adventure. And, of course, being a true decendant of my world traveling Grandma Robinson, I'll start looking for plane tickets so I can go visit them! Now our big question - take the kids so they can see the cousins or leave them. Ugh. We think only Ben would do okay. The other two could be a complete and total nightmare and not appreciate the trip in the end at all. It's flipping day and night almost completely. Nap time would be a disaster since we want to sight see. And can you say 14 hour plane ride twice in two weeks? I shutter to think how bad that could be. Suggestions? Comments? What would you do?

Family Fun with Candy Booth

We had a fun time with Candy Booth and her dad, Jerry here in DC for a few days. She got a great casual family picture of us all. I wish I had picked Maddie an outfit instead of let her choose something zany with wild, unkept hair, but we take what we can get. Plus, we weren't planning pictures.

Obama Goes to Lunch

You know when something is happening in your area that totally consumes the news coverage? Well, we live in metro Washington DC and Obama is about to take office. You wouldn't believe the saturation of media coverage on the news about Obama and everything that he does. The inauguration is totally consuming the news every single evening. On Saturday night we were watching the news. We got bored with a very lengthy report on Obama's arrival in DC. They were giving ridiculous amounts of detail on what Obama had for lunch and where he ate. We switched channels. Same report on the next station and the next and the next. Not kidding all four networks were giving extensive detail and lengthy reports on his lunch schedule for the day. I'm really tired of the inauguration and can't wait for it to be over. One more week to go and I'm on countdown.

Just in case you are curious, Obama ordered a chili dog and cheese fries from Ben's Chili Bowl.