thanksgiving on montauk

we drove out to montauk early thursday morning.

it was a beautiful day and we stopped at the overlook before going up to the house.

everyone at the house was beginning to set the table.

my sister cooked a delicious and juicy turkey.

it was a very good meal. we supplied the creamed celery and the pumpkin pie and cookies from il cantuccio.

nana and nonno baked two apple pies. one was for korrina, 

and the other was for chanda.

adam's birthday was in october, and i still had a gift due to him!

digging into the dessert!

we had tea and pie and cookies, and then i was full and ready for bed!

thanksgiving . .

pies were made by forties and fifties and hundreds and made of everything on the earth . . . . pumpkin pies, cranberry pies, huckleberry pies, cherry pies, green-currant pies, peach, pear, and plum pies, custard pies, apple pies, marlborough-pudding pies, --pies with top crusts and pies without--pies adorned with all sorts of fanciful flutings and architectual strips laid across and around . .

harriet beecher stowe, oldtown folkes

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have a great thanksgiving! we're off to montauk for a day or two . .

another birthday

 this morning we celebrated korrina's 19th birthday.

 i sang to her and lit her one birthday candle and she then opened her gift (i found the cat wrapping baby at the corner bookstore).

 star wars sheets. she was surprised that i had found them, but i was lucky that pottery barn just happened to reissue the original 80's print this year. 

 another delicious breakfast,

 with jack in his same spot.

 this time xena joined the party and laid in the sun.

korrina's birthday roses from marlene.

a new picture card for the piano.

 morgana working with the rosetta stone on her new computer . . 

 chanda . . patiently (?) waiting for me to read more azkaban chapters to her from the third harry potter book.

 korrina and i went shopping! we visited the camera store, gap, h and m, and american apparel. a few necessities were for her birthday, and the remaining items will be put away for christmas.

 maybe i should buy this lion for our hallway?

 we ended our errands at eataly where we shared a fennel salad and a seafood pasta and then,

 espresso!

 korrina chose apple crisp for her birthday cake, 

 and pizza for dinner. we made a white pie for morgana since she's not having tomato these days.

 they're watching funny cat movies on youtube on korrina's phone.

 waiting for me to say that she can blow the candles out . . 

 we had pumpkin ice cream with the crisp.

it was a fun and busy day. chanda and i finished reading the prisoner of azkaban, (we even had time to read for a little while in bosie cafe on morton street before dinner), and then everyone went to sleep . . i'm finishing making a pumpkin/butternut squash pie and creamed celery for dinner tomorrow at my mom and dad's.

the second ice skating lesson

we had ice skating again today, and i still hadn't found chanda a pair of skates that fit her well. the result was that her feet hurt after two hours of skating. maybe i'll try ebay . .

sasha cohen was practicing again . .

i tried to sneak a few movies this time . .


she's enchanting to watch. you don't want to take your eyes off of her.


she just glides and flows in and out of the crowd.

 chanda saved two bugs today . . !

the first one was a fly which i was so lucky to see . . i didn't have the privilege of seeing the second . .

a new set of paintings was placed out to dry today in the westbeth courtyard,

and the garbage pile on our sidewalk grew a couple of feet.

i sat outside chanda's class today to be able to speak with her teacher afterwards and invite her to the nutcracker show. i ended up talking with two other moms about yarn and knitting projects, and then janet showed up with yves to pick up gael.

xena and madeline cuddled on chanda's bed this afternoon,

and morgana finished cleaning out the dollhouse. i had forgotten about how sweet the clothes and accessories were that they had made.

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this evening morgana and chanda helped me pick out pictures for korrina's birthday table . . and chanda wrapped her gift.