Oh The Places I'll Go...

Oh the places I'll go....

Random life

Going for Dosas.

Hanging. 

Growing. 

January 24th: R's Birthday

In which we had two nights (two!) without any of the kids.  And so we impersonated the lives of "hipsters in the city" or at least what we think those without kids might do....

This involved: a movie, evening drinks, browsing Indigo, early morning yoga, brunch and the paper, a walk to Kensington Market, amazing tacos, browsing Holts, Starbucks, an attempt to see a play, replaced by impromptu massages and take out Korean.

Actually, just writing out that list makes me think that really only parents of three would cram so much activity into a 36 hour period.

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Saturday October 27

Even though Avery just wanted to smash his pumpkin and the weather is grey cold, it was still nice to be able to spend some time just the two of us.

Being caught between a talkative 6 year old and a 9 week old baby isn't easy.

Hopefully days like this help.

Friday June 25th: Busy/Book CLub

Yesterday R & I had an amazing lunch, the food at Tutti Matti was fine (actually the deep fried chick peas in my salad were delicious) the Italian burger, just ok.

But the company was fantastic!  We had Parag & Ayesha  in town literally for the day, then back to NYC and onto London for them.  Wonderful conversation with non stop laughter (and we were only drinking sparkling water).

It was a day for chatting.  Lunch was followed by drinks with another friend from NYC who as in town, then I ran off to get the kids, who for the first time stayed with Brother (the ultimate in birth control) while R& I went for more drinks with Shashi Tharoor  who was in town for the IFFA's and then I went to my first ever book club meeting. 

We live on the worlds friendliest street and of course, it has a book club. Now, I'm an avid reader, and in past years have kept track of new books read, old ones revisited, but I've never interested in joining a book club.  Mostly because, I have people I talk books with and I just wasn't looking for more.

But I went to first ever meeting.  The book was a Lisa See novel (my first).  I love a good historical novel and this one is quick read, the main character is difficult to warm to but the cultural insight left me wondering how and if this view that: life is hard and that a mothers love is best shown through preparing her children for the struggles ahead currently manifests itself in Tiger Mother parenting? The most gripping parts of the book were the descriptions of the process behind foot binding, and the agony that it involved.

Anyway, its my kind of book club, lots of laughing, gossip and wine and in between a few comments on the book.

In the past,