National Christmas Tree lighting

This past Thursday we went to the National Christmas Tree lighting. There was an online lottery you could put your name into to get tickets, and our name was pulled. Unfortunately they were standing room only tickets, but it gave us a reason to go to it and to be a little closer. It was neat to be there, but I'm not sure it was completely worth it given that it was on a weekday at 5 pm. Tim had to meet us downtown after work, so I didn't want to take the metro because that would have meant that me and the boys would have had to ride the metro home at night and well, I'm just not that brave no matter how safe the metro is supposed to be. So anyhow, we had to deal with the traffic nightmare in DC at rush hour and both Tim and I just barely made it there by 5 and the event was only an hour long. We couldn't see all that well and the field was super muddy and it was cold. Then to top it off, traffic was atrocious on the way home as well. Ugh! But, it was just one of those crazy things I like to do in order to soak in and experience all that where ever we are currently stationed has to offer. As I was speed walking, pushing the double jogger with the boys all bundled up, it reminded me of when I was a kid and my parents took my brother and I to the inauguration of the first President Bush. I remember it was freezing and we were smooshed together with thousands of other people lining the streets trying to see something and still we really couldn't see anything! So I guess I'm just continuing tradition by dragging Tim and the boys to these silly things. I hope one day that Brady will be able to pull this out of his memory box and say, "I remember when my crazy mom used to make us......"