rue Montorgueil

Jamba Juice

trio

when you're five, sick, bored and have been home for 4 days

"Mom look! I can raise my leg, put my slipper on my foot and count to 100 without letting it fall!"

"remember that you will only be presented with lessons that you are capable of learning and are specific to your own growth"

it recently dawned on me. no matter the questions, no matter the challenges. you have the children you're supposed to have.

Jolayne

walking down rue Montorgueil with my friend Jolayne. I love how she can take photos with her mittens on. I love how she sees things I barely notice.

three beautiful things

in New York City.

a few hours spent with two wonderful friends in Washington Square Park, watching our kids use their ingenuity and the universal language of play to communicate when their vocabularies failed them.

lunch with Blackbird and her husband, talking, laughing. my heart filled with the joyful feeling of being blessed with good, good people.

eating my first cupcake at Billy's Bakery. so happy I almost cried. and when we got up to pay, the lovely lady there smiled at us and said "no, it's okay."

Central Park

I didn't take many photos in New York. I was too busy wondering how to correctly tip the bellman, shopping at Old Navy and trying to prevent my boys from singing "I like to move it move it" in the middle of Times Square.

we had a wonderful, wonderful time.

autumn in New York

autumn in Paris

sipping hot chocolate and eating a croque-monsieur at a sidewalk table on Ile Saint Louis with good friends, one hand in my coat pocket and my favorite scarf wrapped multiple times around my neck.