In preparation for our trip to the UK this summer we’ve been working on passports. Mom has been bugging me to get one for several years now (my old one expired a very long time ago). I tried to take the pictures but I couldn’t get the background sufficiently neutral white so I ended up having them taken at the Post Office when I dropped off my application. A few days later I tried to take Charles in for his but for children you must have both parents along which is quite the scheduling problem for us. Mom did manage to get us all to a copy shop to get pictures of everyone except me and then, with some more effort, we were able to all go to the Post Office to apply. Naturally I had messed up the pre-printed forms so we had to fill them out again. But finally all of the applications were submitted and now we just have to hope the passports arrive before it’s time to leave.