Taking Me Seriously

As Clark Griswold said of his old-fashioned family Christmas, "I did it." I could totally relate this past week, after everything I had lined up for us to do actually happened without any major hitches.  We drove back and forth to South Carolina from December 21-23. We enjoyed Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at home, December 24-25. We left on Christmas Day to go to Washington DC and spent December 25-28. We returned in time for a friend's Christmas party on December 28. Did I have help? Of course. But all the planning (so much planning!) that I did paid off - so I really did my part. The biggest thing that could have become disastrous was our trip to DC. But we managed to actually do all of the following, mostly on foot: The National Christmas Tree by the White House, the African American Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Chinatown, Hardrock Cafe, the National Archives, the holiday lights at the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, Union Station, Dupont Circle...