Author: Katie

New hottest game in our yard? Big Ball Bonzaga!

Plenty of opportunities to faceplant… and laugh right through

All of a sudden it’s fort-building season!

The Catskills were a beautiful setting for a visit with extended family

We took a multigenerational walk

To an awesome rope swing

And some gorgeous trees & views

Cousins once removed

We bopped into the artsy town of Woodstock

Get it? Woodstock?

Smiles! (Mostly…)

Games!

More games!

We participated in a lovely, non-traditional Passover seder featuring Landry as the narrator and Annie as a Rabbi and God 🙂

So wonderful to be together!

We spent a day hiking in the early spring wilderness of the Shawangunk Mountains at beautiful Mohonk Mountain House!

Summit selfie with Sky Top Tower

But first: early spring deciduous forest & stream

Quaint wooden bridges

Sticks and ledges

AND….gazebos!

Gazebos for parents!

Gazebos on tiny islands!

Gazebos for withering glances!

Gazebos on the edge of heart stopping cliffs!

Here the children clung to each other in the wind at the top of the tower. Dramatic

On our third day in NY we took Metro North from Grand Central Terminal!

Three of us rode forward facing

Hazel rode opposite us with some of our bags

We ate the bagels of my dreams in Chappaqua

And enjoyed a new playground at my old middle school (locally called, simply, “Bell”)

10 Debby is looking pretty good! Familiar enough.

Carvel soft serve in Pleasantville: straight out of childhood!

Today is Hazel’s golden birthday!

We had snacking cake for breakfast

Then sent her off to sixth grade camp…

Cherry trees at Landry’s school are blooming!

Museum of Natural History! Central Park! Pizza!

We were in the Big Apple for a few days!

Walking to the subway

Waiting for the 5 to Bowling Green

Straphangers

We rode the Staten Island Ferry past Lady Liberty

Up on the windy, windy bow

Later: ice cream beneath skyscrapers

Parental selfie with food trucks

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