{"id":113,"date":"2011-03-02T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-03-02T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:52:51","slug":"home-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Home for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I landed about 5pm ast night from Washington D.C. (actually flew out of BWI airport as it&#8217;s easier, newer and tons cheaper) after a quick 27 hours on the east coast. What a historic city our nations Capital is. The boys are just about old enough to appreciate it so we&#8217;ll have to plan a family trip soon. Thankfully through connections, I stayed at a boutique hotel, 4 blocks from the Capital that was normally $500 a night, for $159. (plus they even upgraded me!) We had a great sushi dinner at Santen, one of the top restaurants in D.C. that should have cost $500 as well but were only charged $100. It&#8217;s nice to know people. Monday was cold and rainy in D.C. with yesterday clear, sunny and kind of cool. I took a quick drive around the National Mall which encompasses everything from the White House to the Capital and all sights in between. It&#8217;s quite a sight.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I landed I rushed to my car to go get the boys from my brother and his wife. Upon arrival they had taco&#8217;s prepared for us for dinner, thanks! Aunt Blondie commented that she doesn&#8217;t know how we do it, referring to raising the boys. It seems about 5 hours over two days was enough for her. I guess when you&#8217;re the parents you somewhat get used to it. What I mean is they will always find something to fight over as that&#8217;s what 7 and 9 year old brothers do. Point is, whatever it is, it&#8217;ll pass in a few minutes as they have a short attention span. You just need to ride it out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to Phoenix tomorrow and back Friday and then done for a few weeks, I think. I was almost pulled into a San Francisco trip next Tuesday but have jury duty. Maybe I&#8217;ll get lucky and get some cool case involving Charlie Sheen! Mom got home around 8:15 and I had both boys already asleep. Today she works from 3 until 9:45pm so we won&#8217;t see each other much as I have a busy day. She&#8217;s then off Thursday, Friday and Saturday but I&#8217;m gone the first two of those. At least we&#8217;ll be together Saturday. It&#8217;s almost 6am and everyone will be waking soon so I need to get some work done before the morning party starts. I&#8217;ll let Mom post tomorrow as she writes so well and I&#8217;m sure is a welcome change from my thoughts. Hope everyone is well and happy, take care,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I landed about 5pm ast night from Washington D.C. (actually flew out of BWI airport as it&#8217;s easier, newer and tons cheaper) after a quick 27 hours on the east coast. What a historic city our nations Capital is. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}