Old Photo Weekend:Suddenly, New York

This summer is pretty booked - not every day, but enough days here and there that it messes up our chances for a family vacation. We'll have to pay closer attention to this next year and plan better.

The Girls will be going to a Girl Scout/Girl Guide World Center in Mexico for two weeks, starting July 3. Weekely Band rehearsals start next Monday night. Trombone, trumpet and piano lessons (and we still didn't arrange for some guitar lessons for Bookworm yet). Band camp July 31-August 4 (six + hours a day). Need to sign the girls up for driver's ed. I'm teaching at a kid's art camp, and working my part-time job.

So, when Nod got a couple of bonuses at work and I saw a small window of opportunity, we decided to GO! We're leaving for NYC after my art class this morning, and will return Monday afternoon in time for band. Hoping to see Still Life!


This photo is not so very old: it was taken on Father's Day, June 2001. It's my twin daughters on one of the Twin Towers. Nod had read on the offical TT website that on Father's Day, any dad that brought a tie to donate to some cause would get to go up to the top for free. When we got there, the employees didn't know anything about it (we were the first to show up with a tie). But a manager said, let him up, good grief! So, much later on, we wondered what happened to that tie, did anyone else bring a tie, and was it still there 80 days later when the towers were attacked.

Thanks to mom for watching after The Boys while we're gone.