“Do you know what day it is today?” Sophie excitedly asked me when we arrived home this evening. “Sure I do,” I responded, impressed that she remembered her grammy’s birthday.
Category Archives: Treasures from the Archives
Spending Time with Family
It’s been a lovely weekend – spending time with family, going to the movies (between the 10 of us on Friday, we saw “Skyfall,” “Lincoln,” “The Rise of the Guardians” and “Sessions”), doing sone local shopping and visiting the Museum of the Moving Image, a gem of a museum in Queens that has a little something for everyone.
What Makes Me Proud
We never got around to going around the dinner table to share what we were thankful for, because we were having too much fun eating.
But in the spirit of keeping Thanksgiving alive even though we stopped stuffing ourselves a couple of hours ago, following are a few of the things I’m thankful for this year (in no particular order).
The Gang’s All Here
Almost everyone, anyway. The rest of the gang will be at my mom’s tomorrow. In the meantime, my aunt and uncle from Ithaca are here and my mom, my brother and my sister-in-law joined us all for dinner.
Fall Leaves
It’s that time of year. It’s not fall if Sophie hasn’t had a go at a leaf pile. Enjoy her antics to the music from the soundtrack of “Les Triplettes de Belleville,” a terrific animated French film by Sylvain Chomet.
Ah, the joys of youth.
Thanksgiving Already?
I don’t know where the time has gone. Another year, another Thanksgiving and before we know it, another Hanukkah, another birthday (I can’t really bear to think about that) and another Christmas.
And in just a few short weeks, I’ll be turning the page on 2012 and greeting 2013 with a mix of happy anticipation and nervous anxiety about whether the new year will bring more of the same or something different.
He’s Home!
This week has been a long one. Work is insanely busy, our front door lock called it quits for good and needs to be entirely replaced, and during all of this craziness, my dear husband was sitting pretty in Nashville.
Sophie is Unique
Sophie and I had a conversation this morning about how she is unique. Here are some of the defining Sophie characteristics that we came up with:
My Husband, the Seer
Here I was, the day before the hurricane, making fun of my husband for buying a snowblower as a consolation prize when all of the generators were sold out.
Sophie’s Hurricane Story
We all survived the night camping out as a family in our living room. By the way, this is the closest we will ever come to real camping. I felt about 10 years older when I woke up, thanks to the fact that my legs, too long for the corner of the couch I was sleeping on, were completely cramped. Our power was still out when we awoke (and still is and likely will be for days and days and days) and fallen branches were everywhere, but we were safe.