Ok, so last month I wrote about some of the challenges of raising kids in this city I love. Lest you get too bad of an impression – here is the flip side. We really do love this city where we are raising our kids. In the movies NYC is Continue Reading
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Halloween 2016
In true Sunnyside fashion we had another great Halloween. The boys wanted to be Ghostbusters. (Again) This year the twist was they were the Ghostbusters – so I made a new suit for Simon and Rob made a new Pack for Caleb. Rob was the Marshmallow man. Fun Fact: The Continue Reading
Raising kids in this city I love
Last week I took Simon and a friend to the Met on one of the days they were out of school. A comment on Instagram was how thinking about trips to cool places in the city makes her want to move here stat! I’m all for more of my friends Continue Reading
#MicroblogMondays: When pets die
It’s been a week now. Last Monday, Mr. Theodore Monkey left this world. We told Simon the bunny was sick on Saturday and that he would die soon. There were tears and some ugly cries. We talked about what it meant to die and how the bunny was very old Continue Reading
First week jitters, second week fun.
Kindergarten. It started. School starts comparatively late here so today is day 8 of Kindergarten including the first half-day. Over the past month or so my facebook and instagram feeds have been full of pictures of smiling children with a chalkboard or sign stating “first day of X grade xx-xx-2016”. Continue Reading