new year's morning in the city.

On New Year's Day we hopped in the car and shot into the city like a cannon ball on the magically empty LIE. It turns out, we really don't live that far from NYC after all! But with the traffic, who can tell? So we stopped for a brief visit to see the tree, where it was too cold to linger, and then headed up to the Museum of Natural History. Rowan was in heaven, but Anderson was unimpressed. And I quote, "I don't find dinosaurs all that interesting. . . " 

By noon we were headed over to MumMum and Papa's for New Year's dinner! Kicking off the new year right!

let's work backwards.

Hi there. It's been a while. 

But let me assure you, we haven't been ignoring you. We've just been a little too under the weather to do much of anything but rest at every chance that we got. We (and I mean me and the boys minus Tom) have all shared pink eye, Andy pneumonia, me and Rowan bronchitis and Henry a cold over the past three weeks. Somehow I was the first to get hit and the last to recover. Oh, and there was also a birthday and thanksgiving in there, too(!); which means a thanksgiving play, haircuts for the boys, trying to take a christmas card photo, lots and lots of doctor visits, and lots of putting of to tomorrow what we should have done today. So that's where we've been.  Mostly. 

Except for this past weekend. Where Tom and I went into the city overnight to celebrate our anniversary and my birthday for a weekend. Of amazingness. And i have really no photos to share with you because my phone is full, and there are no photos allowed inside The Nutcracker, and I don't like to take selfies when we're in Blue Hill sitting a few tables away from Jack Osbourne and we're playing it cool. Not to mention too busy stuffing our faces on some of the best food we've ever eaten. So, there's not much to show for our awesome weekend other than the smiles on our faces as we remember how for 24 hours we lived the luxurious life. . .

View from our room at the Standard Hotel

Waiting for the show to begin. Seats in the third row. On the aisle.
A-MA-ZING.

And now, you're all caught up!

And a *special thanks* to Mom and Dad for making this weekend happen! xoxox

untitled (our weekend).

On Saturday we dropped Andy and Rowan off with Mum-Mum and Papa (thanks mom and dad!) and headed into the city with Henry for a little change of scenery (for me). We wound up at the MOMA because we wanted to see the rain room, but between the four hour wait, and the fact that it was raining outside, we stayed with the special exhibitions in the main building -- which were awesome (sorry, no photography allowed!). Then we headed down to Tribeca (Henry's first subway ride!) for some lunch at a cute organic restaurant called Bubby's. It was a great day and a much-needed break from the routine.

Hope your weekend had you inspired, as well! xoxo