Highlights from the Past Week

(in no particular order)

Flying out of DC hours before it gets pummeled with snow and ice: Then calling your friend from warmer climes and asking him to shovel your driveway in you're absence. And please, don't pile the snow in one place, it hurts the grass, okay? Well, gotta run--literally, on the beach.

San Diego temple, one of my favorites: It was, as it usually is whenever I happen to visit, packed. I figured it was better to sit around in the temple than it would be to sit around an airport for several hours praying for at least a middle seat on a weather-delayed flight.

In and Out: Love those burgers, baby.

See's Candies: Never come home empty handed.

Sunshine: While it was cold towards the end of the trip, it was 20 degrees here in Washington. I'll settle for 62 with clouds, thank you.

Phone call from a friend in the ward: Telling me that our chapel was flooded and everyone was scrambling to find wet-vacs to clean the carpets. Oh, how sad that I missed that.

Phone call to the same friend: Describing the nice lunch I was enjoying 5 steps from the beach between meetings. He informed me that I am going to hell.

Anne's Arrival: She flew out for a couple of days after my meeting. The kids enjoyed a couple of days at my sister's house, which in their minds is the closest thing on this planet to heaven.

Realizing I had lost my license: The day before we flew home. Where had I dropped it? Who had found it? What on earth would they do with it?! The airline people I talked to on the phone weren't sympathetic; the jist I got was "find it or else call Amtrak."

Driving normally: So as to not get pulled over while driving sans-license.

Finding my license: In a weird, semi-hidden compartment in the rental car. Who designed that thing, anyway? And how did my license jump in there from my wallet?

Returning home: And finding our kids tired, sticky and happy. Tired, sticky and happy is good when you're 3, apparently.