hi. these photos look so "seventies" to me. from a day last weekend when we dropped anna off in brooklyn with her grandma liz, and then tim and i spent a few hours in manhattan. our goal was to knock off our christmas shopping for the girls.
that didn't quite happen, but we did have a nice lunch.
and i showed tim the church my father was baptized in...back in...when, dad? maybe 1925? in a catholic church that is now right in the middle of chinatown.

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oh, the level of energy here right now. can you imagine what our dinner table sounds like?
secret santa is coming to a close, tim and i are having a day together tomorrow...last one where all the girls are in school for a while.
and then tomorrow night, a big, fun night for me and a few of the girls (the middle three...very funny to think of it that way...hee.) off to the city for the nutcracker and dinner out with grandparents and cousins, etc...

things are both heating up and winding down. it's time to check expectations and plans at the door, and just enjoy.

more soon.
xo,
tt