saturday night and sunday

 last night greg and i actually ate dinner out together alone. we went to bus stop cafe where i had shrimp scampi and he had pasta rusticana. it's one of our favorite restaurants, and it was a nice quiet evening with the lights twinkling out in abingdon square.

 chanda was at a sleepover with three of her nutcracker friends.

this morning it was nice to see greg and morgana sit down for a chess match (greg won) . .

and then in the afternoon morgana and i went to meet chanda at her nutcracker rehearsal and we ended up babysitting for an hour . .


we just kept walking to try and get her to sleep . .

and then once she dropped off we kept walking to keep her that way . .

lionbrand yarn store changed their window display. they're ready for the holidays now.

 the sunset this evening was incredibly striking and everyone seemed to notice it as there were a lot of instagram pictures (which was nice as it gave us views from different parts of the city).

the light felt different . . it felt more golden . . i thought maybe it was because it had been grey all day but then cleared just for sunset.

 back at the studio someone woke up . .

and was ready for one last hour of ballet rehearsal (she enjoys the music and the dancing).

 we had fresh broccoli rabe from the farmer's market for dinner.

i had never seen it at a farm stand before so it was nice to try. it was a little different from the "foxy" brand that we find in the grocery store. it wasn't as bitter and didn't have the little broccoli nubs.