at seventeen

morgana celebrated her seventeenth birthday today. oh my goodness. seventeen! i remember my sister being seventeen. i was eight at the time.

inside is a beautiful shawl from the tibetan store on greenwich avenue!

isn't it pretty? chanda and i found it for her one day when we were looking for a birthday gift for their friend tessa.

morgana helped me make her birthday cheesecake.

chanda is reading the roman way! hmmm. why does she looks so glum?

ahh!! a happy morgana! she isn't reading the roman way . . at the moment!

for our morning birthday celebration we had strawberries and whipped cream.

morgana's friends called me to ask when they could take her out to brunch . . so we made room in the day and off they went . . they went to pastis in the meat packing district (just a few blocks away) and she had eggs benedict.

beautiful roses in the jefferson market library garden, just across the street from chanda's ballet class . . 

the jefferson market library garden . . a beautiful oasis in the middle of greenwich village.


for dinner we had pasta with parsley and ricotta cheese and sausage.


and then the cheesecake . .

make a wish!

!!!

she looks happy . .

the cheesecake . . with a lot of raspberry compote!!!

some family members who are only too happy to eat birthday cheesecake . .

one of her evening gifts . . along with a autobiography by patricia reilly giff, and special earrings from satya.