Since school was cancelled on Election Day due to the threat of snow (note the word "threat"- we never got actual snow - yes, go ahead and roll those eyes all you upstate New Yorkers!), we celebrated the occasion by hosting an Inaugural Ball/Playdate here at the house with Mark, Reilly and Zoe. We all wore something special - Reilly had a clip-on tie, Nora, Zoe and Caroline wore princess dresses, I threw a feather boa around my neck, and Mark donned a sports coat. It was nice to learn that another family was as excited as we were about Barack Obama's Inauguration (or, as Nora pronounces it, "The Rock" Obama). Mark and I watched the ceremony and attempted to thoughtfully reflect on the magnitude of the event occurring before our eyes while the kids sang songs into toy microphones and tore apart the playroom around us. It was definitely an Inauguration to remember! On Wednesday night, Gracie Janove, a Sunset Park neighbor and former charge from my babysitting days, came to visit us. She was in D.C. for the Inauguration, and is winding her way down south as she begins her independent study project for college. Although we stayed close to home on Thursday, we took advantage of the great weather on Friday and took Gracie on a driving tour of the base and then a ferry ride over to Portsmouth, where we had lunch at the Old Towne Bakery, a new "find" on High Street. Nora particularly loved gazing at all of the desserts in the display case -- she is a girl after Daddy's own heart, for sure. She selected an oversized vanilla cupcake with pink and purple sprinkles on top and, predictably, licked off all the icing first and only took a few bites of the actual cupcake. It was so nice to see Gracie again and to get to know her as a 20-year-old, instead of the 3-year-old I remember. She has done such interesting, inspirational things with her life and is sure to do more. Both girls started out with the sniffles earlier this week, but poor Caroline has developed a doozy of a cold. Last night was the first night she slept through the night this week (although she started out the night by throwing up), so I'm hoping she's on the mend.
Since school was cancelled on Election Day due to the threat of snow (note the word "threat"- we never got actual snow - yes, go ahead and roll those eyes all you upstate New Yorkers!), we celebrated the occasion by hosting an Inaugural Ball/Playdate here at the house with Mark, Reilly and Zoe. We all wore something special - Reilly had a clip-on tie, Nora, Zoe and Caroline wore princess dresses, I threw a feather boa around my neck, and Mark donned a sports coat. It was nice to learn that another family was as excited as we were about Barack Obama's Inauguration (or, as Nora pronounces it, "The Rock" Obama). Mark and I watched the ceremony and attempted to thoughtfully reflect on the magnitude of the event occurring before our eyes while the kids sang songs into toy microphones and tore apart the playroom around us. It was definitely an Inauguration to remember! On Wednesday night, Gracie Janove, a Sunset Park neighbor and former charge from my babysitting days, came to visit us. She was in D.C. for the Inauguration, and is winding her way down south as she begins her independent study project for college. Although we stayed close to home on Thursday, we took advantage of the great weather on Friday and took Gracie on a driving tour of the base and then a ferry ride over to Portsmouth, where we had lunch at the Old Towne Bakery, a new "find" on High Street. Nora particularly loved gazing at all of the desserts in the display case -- she is a girl after Daddy's own heart, for sure. She selected an oversized vanilla cupcake with pink and purple sprinkles on top and, predictably, licked off all the icing first and only took a few bites of the actual cupcake. It was so nice to see Gracie again and to get to know her as a 20-year-old, instead of the 3-year-old I remember. She has done such interesting, inspirational things with her life and is sure to do more. Both girls started out with the sniffles earlier this week, but poor Caroline has developed a doozy of a cold. Last night was the first night she slept through the night this week (although she started out the night by throwing up), so I'm hoping she's on the mend.
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