The world is flat
Isaac starts Chinese immersion next year in first grade. I'm thinking about taking Chinese 101 at BYU in the fall so I can learn with him, in spite of his pouty insistence that he wants "to be the only one in the family who speaks Chinese,"
(what happened to my sweet Isaac? there's some bratty kid who's taken over his body. I blame the losing of the second front tooth -- Mr. Sassy Pants)
but the classes offered are at the worst possible times known to motherkind: 8 AM or 4 PM, EVERY DAY. Hmmm, how committed am I to this?
In related news*, I'm going on a trip in June with my husband and only one of my little monkeys to our nation's fine capital {a or o, a or o? google doesn't seem to know} city and I'm interested in any of y'all's favorite things to do there. What one museum, one restaurant, one stroll, one bakery, etc. is not to be missed? Please share.
If you do, I'll tell you about the only time I have been to DC and how it was a pivotal, tormented, maddening, bizarre, lonely, enlightening four days in my young history. How perhaps I could pinpoint my very passage of young womanhood into womanhood on those exact four days. Also, how I was quite unrequitedly lovesick for Steve Craig, although I didn't know it at the time, since I was dating his friend, but that was an extraneous emotion and not at all connected to the maddening, bizarre, pivotal, tormented stuff.
So, do: tell me your favorite place to be in DC.
*Related in that: my kids can be sassy pants and I need a break, and oh look! there's a break coming up on the calendar. That will be really nice for me. I look forward to that.
(what happened to my sweet Isaac? there's some bratty kid who's taken over his body. I blame the losing of the second front tooth -- Mr. Sassy Pants)
but the classes offered are at the worst possible times known to motherkind: 8 AM or 4 PM, EVERY DAY. Hmmm, how committed am I to this?
In related news*, I'm going on a trip in June with my husband and only one of my little monkeys to our nation's fine capital {a or o, a or o? google doesn't seem to know} city and I'm interested in any of y'all's favorite things to do there. What one museum, one restaurant, one stroll, one bakery, etc. is not to be missed? Please share.
If you do, I'll tell you about the only time I have been to DC and how it was a pivotal, tormented, maddening, bizarre, lonely, enlightening four days in my young history. How perhaps I could pinpoint my very passage of young womanhood into womanhood on those exact four days. Also, how I was quite unrequitedly lovesick for Steve Craig, although I didn't know it at the time, since I was dating his friend, but that was an extraneous emotion and not at all connected to the maddening, bizarre, pivotal, tormented stuff.
So, do: tell me your favorite place to be in DC.
*Related in that: my kids can be sassy pants and I need a break, and oh look! there's a break coming up on the calendar. That will be really nice for me. I look forward to that.
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And, that temple (first one I ever entered -- rode a bus 12 hours to get there).
go to: georgetown cupcakes. that's all i know. read rockstar diaries and i'm sure you'll find stuff.
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there is no way you'll make it to those class times: school starts and school ends. how would you manage that?
I think it's fantastic that Isaac gets this opportunity in school!
My favorite D.C. attractions from living there 35 years ago: the memorials, the Smithsonian, Mt. Vernon, Great Falls Park, Manassas Battlefield, Arlington Nat'l. Cemetery, the White House.