orange cats and black dogs and big orange buses and even huger yellow leaves

 you know it's cold when the kitties sit THIS close to one another ;)

i think the stare-y eyes mean "please turn on the heating....

and while you're on your feet, fill up the food bowl too":)

 just another Monday morning in paradise

he HAD to check out the Wimpy Kid bus 

 eh, it was alright (OK it was t-o-t-a-l-l-y cool!!!)

 i want to go to Paris for hot chocolate

random pictures of black dogs :)

i'm grateful for 10mm lenses and walks in the woods

 sometimes i get to school 5 minutes early (on purpose)

so i can go and sit by this perfect lake for those perfect 5 minutes

for real xoxo

coffee and Taylor and apples and books

drinking

coffee.  with non-dairy creamer and sweet-n-lo.  third cup. 

listening

to birds - it's a perfectly quiet and still Thursday morning in leafy suburbia

hating

anything that starts with the words "keep calm and..." (i r-e-f-u-s-e to keep calm EVER, but on demand??  no.) and anything Frozen (i am SO grateful for my kids anti-obsession with Disney and movies that make my eyes/ears want to die).  and bad perfumes.  and animal prints.  and the new Taylor Swift album.  and soccer.  omg soccer JUST BE DONE ALREADY!  weekends are for trips to Cape Cod and the Hamptons and estate sale shopping and seashell collecting and marathon TV watching.  NOT for soccer.  never for soccer  

going

to the British store today.  i need selection boxes and advent calendars with edible chocolate and those big huge tubes of Smarties :)  

also going

to New Hampshire.  the best place to buy things with an apple logo on them :)

waiting

for boots to arrive (pretty much always).  and fancy new work pants (gasp: i have a JOB!  uhuh!!).  and hula hoops and walkers crisps and monster munch and jaffa cakes.  (you should never cruise amazon.com in the dead of night when you're starving and homesick :)

 we picked Empire apples in the Empire state

 Lake Champlain and  Burlington 

 painting of a cat (kind of)

 she's angry i didn't paint her ;)

 somewhere in Vermont where i bought absolutely nothing

 there was a very faint rainbow but our street was so pretty and luminous!

 he loves throwing out-of-date eggs into the forest 

they don't break for some reason and today one got stuck in a tree!!

it was like totally mind-blowing!

 why i love Manchester part 23955493 

(i am SO HOMESICK for british people.....)

i got a huuuuge french fry at McDs that was like three fries wide.

but i ate it.  and didn't take a picture.

 why you can never walk up or down the stairs with your eyes closed

 the new Wimpy Kid book is magical :)

home, school and New York....

 datenight = back-to-school night.  jealous?  me either 

 bangers beans and mash (it's a song that you can eat ;)

 rain-ish

 Lake Champlain VT

a pointlessly tall filing cabinet in deepest Vermont

 i have a new love: it's the Hamptons :)

penne a la vodka, NY pizza and garlic knots... and Law and Order

what every Friday night should be like :)

 Chinatown NYC

 Central Park

before school