Well for those of you who know me it has been a busy last 4 months.


It has been baseball, baseball, baseball. I can honestly say that when I sleep I dream baseball. I decided to take on helping run the concession stand. I know you all are thinking what would you do that for. Well let me explain. It has been very hard for the little league to have parents volunteer. If I wouldn't have stepped up then there would have been no one to help bring in the extra money that is required to run the faculty. The concession stand is what pays our lights, umpires, grass care, dirt or the field etc. I think you get the picture. So with all of that, I needed a break. I drove up to Maryland to surprise my husband for fathers day. Boy he was surprised. He couldn't stop telling me that he was glad that we came. I had a great time with as well. We decided to go into D.C. We got to the metro around 4:00, payed for the tickets and headed up to the train. Now lets imagine 10 kids 9 of them that can talk, all looking for the train. It just seems like they really keep you on your toes. You have the boys, leaning over the track to see it coming in. The girls giggling because they are girls. Then you have to tell them not to cross the line. Then you have the little boy and little girl that that doesn't apply to so you have to put the lock down on them to keep them from stepping further then you. It is all a sport to get to D.C.. So we get on the train and there is stop and go at 80 miles and hour. I am having flash backs to the times of living there and it has been a while, to say the least. However, the reality of it is it was just like yesterday. We get about 7 stops in and find out there has been a disaster on the red line. The conductor just keeps saying every 5 minutes that he is not sure but there are trains stopped and we are waiting. In the dark in a tunnel. I think we waited there about an hour. Then the trains started to move. After we were almost to our destination we find out that a couple of the trains have collided on the track and that they have shut the red line down. We are praising the lord that we were not on that train.












The train gets us to Metro Station and we need to switch trains but the little ones bladders are not going to allow for us to get on another train with out relief. So we emerge from the tunnels below the city to find a restroom. We came out about 4 blocks short of the destination we were destined for. We find a McDonald's, walk in head to the bathroom and find that you have to get a token from the counter to even get in. So go to the counter get the token, take all the kids, get out and find that now it is 6:45 and all the museums are going to be closing in 15 minutes. Now we are all disappointed. So we figure lets make the best out of this and we will walk the kids tired. So we headed for the Washington Monument. It is beautiful and the grass is covered in people playing softball, running, kickball, and kite flying. It is amazing that people just go about with these amazing historical monuments behind them. The city is under constuction every where you look and the sky is a mixture of beautiful colors, mixed with stormy skies. The monuments where set in an incredible background.













We walk the kids, over to the Jefferson Monument and then my brother in law say, I know know why we never get all the way there. It was a long walk and only halfway there just decided to take pictures. Then turned and went to the WWII monument. That monument speaks words that can never capture the true essence of what happened. Set between the Washington and Lincoln Monument it is picturesque. The only thing that takes the beauty from me is one of my kids turns to me and says WOW mom that is the same place that is in Night in the Museum. That was a great show mom. OK, now they all start in on how great that movie is and now want to go to the air and space museum. So they know now why they are there.












We decided it was time to go home sun has set and it is dark. Kids are tired and so are moms and dads. We get back on the metro head home and hit the sack. To return to life and be team mom, concession stand coordinator, and BOD person. So back to life.