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.

saturday snow day

it was a cold night, and we woke to a beautiful white world. i love snow days. chanda and i go out to third street on saturday mornings, so we dressed warm today. unbelievably, this was the first day we pulled out our snow boots. well, i guess we needed them in october for the freak snow storm we had then, but we hadn't used them since. unusual for this time of year.

we were the first ones out into the courtyard this morning.

i dropped chanda off at acting class after third street music school. i came home to a chess game between morgana and greg.

it was just a cozy afternoon.

at 3 pm the girls went with their friends camille and deychen to see hugo . . for the fourth time? but it was camille's and deychen's first time seeing the movie. they went with the free passes we received when we saw tintin. the projector had trouble that day, and they gave us free passes to compensate.

what's for dinner? another giada recipe! giada's carbonara with fresh asparagus, basil and a fried egg on top (and an arugula salad with lemon juice and sea salt).

chess