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This Moment.

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

A few things to be grateful for THIS weekend.

1.  Taco Night.

2.  Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.*

3. A great visit with a great brother and sister-in-law.

4.  Cooking tips from Mario Batali at a Little League game.**

5.  A o'er-flowing Farmers' Market.***

6.  A trip to the Tribeca Film Festival where we saw the great and important movie, No Woman, No Cry .

7.  Dinner with friends.****

8.  Lots of dancing around the living room to Wicked.*****

9. Sleeping until 8.  Even if the wake-up at 8 is because the milk bottle shattered all over the kitchen floor between 4 kids who are a little freaked out about the shards of glass and puddles of milk.

AZ

*Or cookies without chocolate, if you are Violet.

**On Ramps, which we promptly sauteed to great success.

***where aforementioned Ramps were purchased.

****at which Ramps were cooked.

*****which, to be fair, occurs every single weekend.

Easter:: 3

After all of our own Easter Fun, we got to participate in a little National Fun.

We waited in line with thousands of people. 

Made our way through long lines.

To the Easter Egg Roll.  We got invited because Obama wanted to make sure that there were gay and lesbian families represented.  So we tried to look extra gay* and went on in and had fun!

 

We checked out Justin Bieber.  One song was enough.
! 

Ruby and Violet loved the yoga garden.
 

And did their Shivasana right there on the South Lawn.
 

And, of course, the traditional egg roll.
 
       

By the time all of that was over, we were pretty darn hot and sweaty, and maybe even a little whiny.

The most we could manage was a last photo op, and then we took our souvenir eggs and skedaddled back to NYC.  
 

AZ

*Okay, in absolutely no way did we look extra gay.  I even had freshly painted lavender toenails.  Although, isn't purple a gay color? 

  

Easter:: 2

Four kids.

A mad dash.

 

A wild search.

Victory!

  

AZ

 

Easter:: 1

We started out our Easter holiday by doing a little egg-dying. (though as you can see, J did not look up from his book and T only rarely looked back to the only-purchased-hours before iPad).

Some of us were meditative.

Others preoccupied.

And others not fully clothed.  

 

A motley crew at best! But we dyed 18 eggs and had a grand old time anyway.

 
    More Easter adventures to come tomorrow...

AZ

 

The flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la)*

Everybody else was a little too busy playing to help with flower pickin'.  But this was plenty of help.  

AZ

*Name that musical.....

Where we can see heaven much better.*

Why are we not up here every single moment of the week in good weather?

I think it has something to do with that extra flight of stairs. 

Its kind of absurdly lazy, I guess, but somehow we don't use the roof much.

We have begun to this season, however.

Pizza Night is now officially served on the roof.

And we all like it better that way.

We can spy on our neighbors. Do the limbo. Smell the flowers. And look at our sliver of river.

AZ

*Name that Mixed Company song.

What Spring Looks Like:: 5

Doesn't this look like fun?

Welcome, Spring.

This concludes my little mini photo series* of Spring.

Back to my random-ness next week....

AZ

*My first blog series of any kind...how did you like it? Only answer if you did. Seems like most bloggers have series...so I had to play with it.

What Spring Looks Like:: 4

The walk to school.

Rain boots, rain coats, flowers

a much much easier time getting out of the door now that we don't have to find mittens, hats and gloves....

AZ

What Spring Looks Like:: 3

I love walking down the street and seeing this. Happy Earth Day everyone.

AZ