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and what would you know, it's been five million years! wait, let me make sure my blogging fingers are still working . . . ooh barely! should we get this party started with a giiiiiant selfie? oh good. onward! 

so this week we have family in town, my uncle dennis and his wife sharon and their daughter samantha. sam is reporting for duty as a college freshman at ASU at the end of the week. in between moments of wildly writing down any coherent thought that pops into my head in case it decides to become something elegant later, i've been playing tour guide, which in case you didn't know is my very favorite thing to play. 

i had a moment this afternoon on the steps of the new york public library when i was gazing down fifth avenue and the sky was crisp with that special just-rained air. i was noticing i could barely see the flat iron building peeking out behind the sky scrapers when i thought, oh my gosh i love it here. 

tomorrow we're taking the family on the official holbrooklyn tour, which means i have pizza looming in my future. i could probably think of something better if i tried really hard, but why?

i feel like i'll get a handle on all that i'm juggling fairly soon. maybe. i'll figure out when my most fertile writing hours are going to happen and maybe arrange a sitter in advance, and make sure huck gets out of the house and onto a playground, maybe even put a healthy dinner on the table too. but right now i'm real happy with this chaos. it's kind of fun to see how many plates i can spin at once.  

(we'll see if i still feel this way next week, you never know.)

until then, here are some crummy cell phone photos. i call it: stuff we've been up to. you can enjoy it or not, whatever floats your boat.

△△△ we've been working on henry holbrook's sleeping schedule, the dude is on a time zone all his own, i swear he lives a 32-hour day. it's an experiment fraught with peril. over the weekend huck fell asleep in my arms and i tell you my mushy mom tank is good to go for the next five days.

△△△ churching on sunday and an impromtpu photo with some of my ladies.

△△△ and not to alarm you or anything but the shake shack is doing away with their crinkle cut fries. did you hear? they're replacing them with something called "fresh fries" and i just want to say, i am offended. how are flat fries going to hold my cheese sauce? 

this is huck playing a game our friends introduced us to, wherein you lay on your back with your mouth wide open while your dad pours water from a water bottle at you from five feet up. huck was a real big fan. you know. 

△△△ you've got mail number three has arrived! and huck on the subway. you can't tell but his eyes are completely crossed. peace signs take a lot of focus.

△△△ after nursery on sunday huck decided to come down with a glorious fever that seemed to last for about forever. he's fine now. once the fever broke he promptly took a five hour nap, then woke up requesting spaghetti.

△△△ we spent a very rainy afternoon at tiffany picking out a graduation gift for samantha. she chose a rather lovely blue pen for journaling with. i made us all go up to the third floor to look at the china so i could recite that one scene in sleepless in seattle. 

"eight is too few, twelve is . . . too many." 

△△△ we ducked in the other day to see st patrick's cathedral. if you want a more reverent/less commercial cathedral experience i recommend st thomas just a couple blocks north.

△△△i snuck in a few moments at the abc of it exhibit at the new york public library this afternoon and it was some of the most inspiring moments a girl could sneak.

oh hey you made it to the end! where's your cookie?!