notes

(running red hot mama)

(at work red hot mama)

we are a family of note leavers. it makes me happy coming home (or waking up) and finding notes. i like knowing where everyone is. here are two hastily scribbled ones left for me not too long ago. the first was from my husband being silly. and the second from my girl, imitating the first, being sillier.

it's one of the things i'm missing, now that my daughter is living across the country. when she was here it was what we'd do, with all my children, let someone know where you are. of course this doesn't happen now. i don't expect to know where she's at, no no. but now i'm not sure how to find the balance between texting and calling too much (let her go ~ i know i know) and not enough (of course i MISS you). how much is too much? or not enough? i worry. i miss her. what is a mother to do?

redhotmamalori

heehee

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summer in the city

How to New York City in ninety six hours or four days.


Walk MILES. Ride subways, taxi's and boats. Attend college orientation, meet friends of friends. Drink cosmopolitans, window shop on 5th avenue, Lexington, Madison Avenue. Eat street cart hot dogs, wave at Miss Liberty, gaze up at the Empire State Building. Sit on the grass in Central Park and people watch on Park Avenue.


We pretended we were still on California time and stayed up till 2am New York time, talking, laughing, knitting. We talked about all we saw and all we didn't (theater and museums), and how we'd have to come back.


Although, as long as my girl is here, a part of me will never leave...

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I have posted a record (for me) 55 photos. SO sorry. In order for anyone to go through this post quickly I've not labeled the photos (less reading), but numbered them instead and added the labels below, for anyone interested in knowing what's what. Thank you for putting up with me. I missed you and it's nice to be back.

1.) Street art and Hannah

2.) NYC manhole cover

3.) Park Avenue

4.) Hannah and Momma

5.) Grafitti/street art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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7.) funny NY sign

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10.) photographing a window of chandeliers as a subway train passed by.

11.) Manhattan Bridge

12.) Brooklyn Bridge (walking over)

13.) sitting in Thomas Paine park

14.) posing with the locals in China Town

15.) this is for you Carolina, found at at a flea market in Williamsburg

16.) shopping in Brooklyn

17.) Williamsburg waterfront and the Manhattan skyline

18.) Ice cream trucks bring happiness and joy

19.) The Roosevelt Hotel

20.) The lobby

21.) One of the very few alone moments in NY

22.) People watching at breakfast, 45th & Lexington

23.) Meeting a friend of a friend and seeing a bit of Africa in the city.

24.) my daughter's college

25.) walking down Park Avenue, a taxi stopped in front of us and this man stepped out, carrying 2 bags from Tiffany's. We spent the better part of the next 30 minutes making up stories about it.

26.) I am love. I am.

27.) Dior

28.) Dolce & Gabbana purse lust

29.) Sheep's meadow, Central Park

30.) 5th Avenue at night

31.) YSL

32.) Times Square

33.) Momma & Hannah

34.) Elevator at world's largest department store, Macy's on 34th st.

35.) Madison Square Garden

36.) Miss Liberty

37.) Cute photo of Lindy, Hannah and the Statue of Liberty

38.) Ellis Island

39.) Financial District

40.) Purl Soho! a favorite website and blog

41.) inside Purl Soho

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45.) inside a NYC taxi

46.) moving day

47.) recommended restaurant in Soho

48.) salon visit in Greenwich Village

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52.) our purchases from Purl Soho. I own a hank of Jade Sapphire cashmere, my first cashmere! One of the best parts of the trip happened in Purl, when my sister Lindy asked me to teach her to knit! and Hannah my daughter wanted to knit again (and learn more). * H A P P Y* Lindy chose the blue bulky Cascade and Hannah the white.

53.) Lindy knitting!

54.) Hannah knitting!

55.) I don't know who's more proud, me or them (me!)

Thank you for joining us and for all your lovely lovely comments on my previous post. Hannah loved the quilt, which she confessed she saw here first.

love,

lori

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