Happy Mardi Gras!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Fat Tuesday!  I so wish Brian and I could have gone out and had a couple of hurricanes to celebrate and I could have worn my authentic New Orleans Mardi Gras bracelet that Jennie Burke gave me, but my honey is of course on call tonight. Nikki would probably suggest another drink for me but that's another story, oh well maybe next year. I always think of the wonderful Burke family during Mardi Gras because they were the first family I ever knew who really celebrated the holiday.  The Burkes have many hometown cities across the US but I think New Orleans is their favorite home after where they live now of course.  I loved eating king cake, decorating masks, and dancing around the house in beads and feathers and masks galore with the Burke children. Happy Mardi Gras everyone especially you Burkes.

Open House Sundays

We are moving to the Upper East Side so on Sundays our apt has been having open house. During this time we have to be out of the apartment from 1:00-2:30.  Normally this would not be too hard except we have a dog and Brian works a crazy schedule.  The first Sunday, thank goodness, it was beautiful outside and we took Foster for a long afternoon in Central Park. But since we thought this may not be the case every Sunday and our new apt. does not allow dogs over 40 lbs. and he really is not a city dog, so Foster is going to live in MD with his grandparents.  They are thrilled to have him but we miss him already.  We know that Foster does not like to be alone a lot and he loves to run around in the woods and swim in the bay so this is the best thing for him. Now it will actually be a lot easier for us to leave the city and just take the train to go and see him. Foster also had to get a seat belt because he keeps trying to jump into the front seat when he is in the car and then he gets his body stuck half way between the seat.  He hated the seat belt and thought the fuzzy padding was a toy to eat but it did the job.

This Sunday's open house was a struggle for Brian and good thing Foster was not here because it was raining. Brian was on call on Saturday and had just gotten home Sunday morning at 10:30 am after working a 27 hour shift.  So he slept for two hours then had to get up for open house.  We went to Starbucks and Brian swears that there is crack in their coffee because he went from half dead to wired.  Hopefully this Sunday will be better and our apt will be rented so we can move.

Rock climbing in the park

This is Foster's favorite toy that he has to bring to bed every night.

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

I am sending this happy belated V-Day message in hopes of redeeming myself from being away from my blog for so long, so lots of love to everyone.  We have been busy here in NYC but nothing that interesting has come up to blog about. I don't have little ones to post pictures of everyday and Brian is probably tired of me taking pictures of every little thing we do just so I will have something to blog about. So that is why I took a break for a while, but we did do something fun of Valentine's Day.  We went to the Met to look at a special exhibit of Art and Love in Renaissance Italy. We also stopped by to look at the Van Gogh and Monet paintings. Then it was home sweet home with two tubs of ice cream. Nothing says I love you like Eddy's and Ben & Jerry's.