Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Talmage participated in a Christmas pageant at the Church of Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side on Christmas Eve. I proposed the idea to T around Thanksgiving after emailing the church and learning that you didn't have to be a member of their congregation to participate and he immediately wanted to do it. We attended last year and he remembered all of the live animals, the dancers, and the children singing their praises to Jesus! He was cast as...

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Some City Sights

This post is a little obnoxious, but mostly I want to remember all of the fun things we did and saw this holiday season. And look, James just took Quinn on a walk and my writing time is limited. So I'm going to photo-dump now so maybe I can write something intelligent later. Maybe.Christmas stars at the Time Warner Building and hot chocolate with my man, Ever Knight."He is the Gift" billboard in Times Square for Monday family night.A Friday night...

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2014 NYC Santa Crawl

I make it a point to see as many city Santas as possible each holiday season. They all have their own personalities and the stores are all decorated so beautifully and I tell ya, I just can't help myself. Believe it or not, we saw five Santas this year and that wasn't even all of the ones I was hoping to catch. But it was a good group (including my two absolute favorite, never miss men in red!)1. Gracious HomeThis was part of Winter's Eve, a huge...

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T's Publishing Party

Talmage is officially an author as of last weeks publishing party. He wrote an entertaining story about when he and Everett decorated the Christmas tree, and both text and illustrations were top notch. He was excited to have ALL of us in his classroom (Daddy took the morning off of work and Quinn was on her best baby behavior). His class sang us a song, T made Miss Steiner and Miss Denise hold his new baby (she cried, the cute little stinker), we...

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Charlie Brown Christmas, Live at the Lyceum

It was another fabulous year of watching Charlie Brown and all his Peanut friends find the true meaning of Christmas at the Lyceum Theater in Brooklyn. Last year, my little boys matched their alter-egos Charlie Brown and Lynus on accident. But this year, oh this year, those two were planning out their outfits all week! They laughed their heads off through the whole performance but mostly they were excited to take a picture with the actors after it...

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Sicky Quinny

I feel like all of my posts lately start out the same. Here it is: "I really wanted to write the other day but I couldn't because my baby was screaming, my toddler was hungry and my big boy had to be at play practice, but today I'm finally going to allow myself a second to write. Amen." Am I right? I said, am I right? (Charlie Brown reference anyone?) Well, so, I guess it's Groundhog Day because that's exactly how I was feeling again today. Like,...

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