1. I don't have nearly as many exciting things to report this week, but I am in DC and having a great time with my colleagues doing my lawyer gig. DC is so beautiful in the spring. I will always love it more than NYC. It is just more my city and more my style. NYC definitely has DC beat on things to do in the evenings though. Couldn't find a dance or theatre performance I wanted to see this week ending my streak.
2. While in DC, I try to run at least on Wednesday, if not more. Last night, I made sure to run past George as E requested a photo. It was a beautiful cool evening for a run. I was surprised to find less people out than usual, but they may have been deterred by rain earlier in the day.
3. Have I mentioned how much I love regalia? In wandering around campus today everyone was wearing fancy new navy GW regalia with the logo on the sleeves. I miss the traditional black a little, but they did look very sharp. It is luck I'm married to a PhD who does have to wear his regalia few times a year :)
4. I had dinner with a law school friend this evening. She is from Nebraska so we share a love of college sports. She got to see Hamilton very early on so we talked about that as well as the presidential election, DC, and our jobs. It was lovely.
5. My mom is sick :( (Hi mom! hope you feel better soon!) This is sad in its own right and her particular ailment I happen to know is really painful, but she has meds now and is recovering. Brent, Audra, and Bill have formulated a plan to cover all the kid logistics tomorrow in her absence, but I suspect she'll miss the long anticipated land run.
6. I, sadly, will also miss the land run, but I did get to see B off to his day in the one room school house. I think he had a good time, but was mostly focused on his lunch. They apparently worked on penmanship and the teacher pretended to take someone outside for swats? B's family will have a conestoga wagon they made for the land run tomorrow, operate a little bakery set up with cookies each kid is bringing, and then after the land run and claim staking, have lunch in pie plates and play fun period games. Should be great!
7. We went to the farm a bit this weekend, and made a group hike out to this old house my ancestors staked in the land run of 1893 and told the kids all about it. It is amazing it is still here and may not be much longer given the creek erosion, but it was a neat visit. (Much more my speed than the snake hunting......which also happened).
8. The kids brought a variety of mother's day things home from school. E, apparently, wrote his very own name on his for the first time, which was awesome. B made this entire long amazing book full of poems, drawings, and other memories. It twas incredibly sweet, well-writen, and with such beautiful hand writting. I will keep it forever.
9. Our strawberry crop is amazing. We get a couple dozen small berries every few days almost. The ants are certainly getting some too. One day E and I came home and had to run off a squirrel from our strawberry patch as he clearly wanted some as well. It is great fun to pick them and eat 1/2 of them in the front yard in the afternoon. I so adore this new house and the strawberry bed is such a random fun bonus. It makes me happy.
10. The Wainrights are some of our very closest friends and we love getting to do things together. In a miraculous turn of events we got to go on a double date with them to the Pentatonix concert in Tulsa last Saturday. (This is amazing as between us we have six kids). My sister took our kids to the farm for a slumber party with Grandma and the Korenaks while Chrissie's sister watched their kids. It was amazing. Brent and I spent almost 22 hours together sans kids which may be our longest kid free vacation in awhile. We started it with a nap, as one does. The concert was good - very high production value and great singing from the main group (the first act was... not so good?). Dinner was quite delicious and we loved getting to spend some kid-free time with some of our favorite people.
Tomorrow I fly home and it is back to the flurry of the last week of school. I'm amazed it has gone so quickly. This week, Ali did week in the life, but I want to do it when I'm home. The last week in the life was the first week of school so it seems somewhat fitting to do the last week. We shall see how that goes as my big camera is broken, but my iphone should do the trick.
2. While in DC, I try to run at least on Wednesday, if not more. Last night, I made sure to run past George as E requested a photo. It was a beautiful cool evening for a run. I was surprised to find less people out than usual, but they may have been deterred by rain earlier in the day.
3. Have I mentioned how much I love regalia? In wandering around campus today everyone was wearing fancy new navy GW regalia with the logo on the sleeves. I miss the traditional black a little, but they did look very sharp. It is luck I'm married to a PhD who does have to wear his regalia few times a year :)
4. I had dinner with a law school friend this evening. She is from Nebraska so we share a love of college sports. She got to see Hamilton very early on so we talked about that as well as the presidential election, DC, and our jobs. It was lovely.
5. My mom is sick :( (Hi mom! hope you feel better soon!) This is sad in its own right and her particular ailment I happen to know is really painful, but she has meds now and is recovering. Brent, Audra, and Bill have formulated a plan to cover all the kid logistics tomorrow in her absence, but I suspect she'll miss the long anticipated land run.
6. I, sadly, will also miss the land run, but I did get to see B off to his day in the one room school house. I think he had a good time, but was mostly focused on his lunch. They apparently worked on penmanship and the teacher pretended to take someone outside for swats? B's family will have a conestoga wagon they made for the land run tomorrow, operate a little bakery set up with cookies each kid is bringing, and then after the land run and claim staking, have lunch in pie plates and play fun period games. Should be great!
7. We went to the farm a bit this weekend, and made a group hike out to this old house my ancestors staked in the land run of 1893 and told the kids all about it. It is amazing it is still here and may not be much longer given the creek erosion, but it was a neat visit. (Much more my speed than the snake hunting......which also happened).
9. Our strawberry crop is amazing. We get a couple dozen small berries every few days almost. The ants are certainly getting some too. One day E and I came home and had to run off a squirrel from our strawberry patch as he clearly wanted some as well. It is great fun to pick them and eat 1/2 of them in the front yard in the afternoon. I so adore this new house and the strawberry bed is such a random fun bonus. It makes me happy.
10. The Wainrights are some of our very closest friends and we love getting to do things together. In a miraculous turn of events we got to go on a double date with them to the Pentatonix concert in Tulsa last Saturday. (This is amazing as between us we have six kids). My sister took our kids to the farm for a slumber party with Grandma and the Korenaks while Chrissie's sister watched their kids. It was amazing. Brent and I spent almost 22 hours together sans kids which may be our longest kid free vacation in awhile. We started it with a nap, as one does. The concert was good - very high production value and great singing from the main group (the first act was... not so good?). Dinner was quite delicious and we loved getting to spend some kid-free time with some of our favorite people.
Tomorrow I fly home and it is back to the flurry of the last week of school. I'm amazed it has gone so quickly. This week, Ali did week in the life, but I want to do it when I'm home. The last week in the life was the first week of school so it seems somewhat fitting to do the last week. We shall see how that goes as my big camera is broken, but my iphone should do the trick.
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