Monthly Archives: December 2012

Today was rest day. Boy did we need it! To wake up with no agenda-bliss!I had a big load of laundry that needed attending to. I trudged it up to the local laundromat, and with a bit of assistance ( as usual for me, here)While I was waiting on that, I decided to look forContinueContinue reading “New Years Eve”

We woke up a lot earlier than the older kids were excited about, as we planned to go into Tim Keller’s Redeemer church in the city this morning. It was a couple train changeovers, but not too stressful. Such a cold day walking outside!!!!There was a lot of security getting in to the church. TheContinueContinue reading “More subway fun is had”

Last night’s karaoke party pulsating under our apartment seemed to go on forever. It officially ended at 2 am but there were definitely stragglers!We were wrecked.I let everyone have a big sleep in and after a late breakfast we headed in for an early lunch in Manhattan at Bubba Gumps. We walked through rain andContinueContinue reading “Day in Times Square (photos coming)”

Well, we woke up to the world’s most amazing pancakes cooking for us along with our first taste of scrapple ( yay!) the coffee was perfect! Sherrie and Mark just took car of us so very very well.They spoiled the kids with huge stockings just before we left. It was an awesome visit!Squashed back intoContinueContinue reading “NYC!!!”

This morning we rose early for dear Donna to drive us in and get our new rental. It was raining and sleeting on the way in but after we picked up our rental it started snowing.Snow is magical and soft and drifting if you don’t have to cram your suddenly- excess luggage into the carContinueContinue reading “In which the Taylors encounter snow and wanted it to stop”

( photo of the 7 yr old and his friend Isaiah standing on the church pew as wise men every time wise men were mentioned in the Christmas story. All the kids came dressed as nativity characters and took part. A great idea!!)24thSo nice to sleep in as long as we wanted this morning! NothingContinueContinue reading “Christmas Eve and Christmas”

In this AirBNB home we are staying at, our host is just amazing.We noticed this evening that she has been laundering our towels every day, and also making the beds up better than we did initially.She has dropped us into the metro and picked us up. And we also noticed that she is continuing toContinueContinue reading “International Spy Museum in record speed”

( Today’s pic is the 7 yr old playing with some astronauts at the Museum of American History during a rest.)Today we caught our first train into DC. It is going to be simple getting around. Our wonderful host Donna had dropped us to the closest metro station. We were Smithsonian-bound!There was a brisk windContinueContinue reading “Smithsonian and a visit with the Royal family”

Overnight at our super 8 motel, the 7 yr old, who has a high pain threshold, woke up with a very sore ear. I was concerned we would need to stumble out into the unknown looking for an emergency room as the motel’s wifi was hopeless!Thankfully he fell asleep when the Panadol kicked in. TheContinueContinue reading “My Jennifer, a fatboy and we hit DC!”

(PS-the picture is of the place where we farewelled one set of friends and welcomed another Hi! Me again! We have done a lot in the past couple days, just had no wifi! Let me catch you up. It will definitely be rambly and disjointed….and forgive spelling as I am battling a small device andContinueContinue reading “Meeting friends!”