All Posts: New York City
This post was originally published last December, before I started sharing Monday Dreaming links and well before my site redesign. Since much about it fit my mood this Monday, I decided to update it for this year and share it again. Hope you enjoy!
We decorated our Christmas tree this weekend and before it tipped over [...]
One thing that has been really nice about all of the travel we did this summer is that we’ve hung out with lots of friends who have kids, many of whom we hadn’t seen in years (and some of whose children we had never met). What better excuse could we have to travel than to [...]
When we were going home from our dessert-as-dinner feast at Dylan’s Candy Bar, Matt said to me “Just for the record, I’m yet to have a meal this weekend that I’ve enjoyed.” He made a fair point. Although our lunch at Grand Central was tasty, our other food choices were adequate at best. I [...]
September 11, 2001 is the day that I can say that I truly felt like a parent for the first time.
When the first plane struck the World Trade Center, I had no idea what had happened as I was in a dentist’s chair having my teeth cleaned and fighting back first-trimester nausea. I had learned [...]
Here’s something that I discovered about making my children hoof it around New York: It leads to good nights of sleep for everyone. Often when we travel, Tommy wakes up absurdly early and then is too exhausted by the time attractions like museums actually open to enjoy them (this happened to us last fall when [...]
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