Family in DC

We stayed with Miranda’s sister and her family while in DC. They were amazing and gracious and we had a great time. Rebecca took us thrift store shopping (always fun for me), to a great hamburger place (I don’t like hamburgers and this was actually so good that I was excited to return later in the week), and was basically an amazing hostess.

It was wonderful spending time with the nieces and nephew. It is always a hoot to hear and participate in conversations that we normally miss, not having children of our own. “Sometimes I scratch my bottom and then my fingers stink.” “I poopied in my underwears, see Daddy all the poopies” “Uncle Dan didn’t know the word for ‘wetlands,’ I think I know more Spanish than Dan does” (from a seven year old in a Spanish immersion class). There were others, but those are the ones that come to my immediate recollection.

We had a great time and it was nice to be the amazing aunt and uncle and to get little kid hugs and affection. But it was tiring.