Deep in the heart of...

Here we are in Houston. We only stopped three times between Little Rock and here on Sunday, which isn't too bad considering we had a 2-year-old in the car.

We're staying at my parents' house, which is really in Richmond. Yesterday we had a big time at First Colony Mall. Today we are doing the Children's Museum in Houston, tomorrow we are going to Baytown to hang out with my best Baytown girlfriend Lois and other dear friends from our old church there, Thursday we are driving from Baytown to Galveston -- where we hope to meet up with Chad's dad somewhere along the way -- and Friday my brother Brian is coming and we are all going to Buca di Beppo.

It will be good to get home Saturday night. We have plans to abduct my mom and bring her back with us.

One note from the road: Once we got into Texas, we stopped at the first Dairy Queen we saw and got Kit Kat blizzards. Yum. DQ is a little hard to come by in Arkansas.