*Wipes Sweat From Brow*

I spent seven hours at the San Francisco passport agency today (five of them with Vida and Lea in tow), but every miserable moment was worth it because when I finally left, I was clutching their passports in my grubby hands. Better yet, when I arrived at home, my passport was sitting on the front step in its FedEx envelope. And so we leave tomorrow, as planned.

Five people + five passports = one long-awaited family vacation