Nearly Departed

I am currently writing from an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, having just returned, with girls in tow, from the wedding of Katie's (mom of children) best friend. The girls were flower girls, and were very good, but it made for a long evening of pictures and walking down aisles and a slight meltdown at the end. I got the girls home from Battery Park Gardens for the second night in a row (the Rehearsal dinner was last night) with only minor snags, including Charlotte pouring almost half of a Nalgene down her dress while sitting on my lap. Wet!

We arrived in NYC on Wednesday, via Acela, after a rather eventful couple of days in Boston: movers coming and going, a rainy day at the Children's Museum, plenty of vomiting and one ER visit (all was okay, just had to check out a tooth before leaving the country...) In spite of it all, I was fortunate to catch up with a couple of dear friends before heading to NYC.

New York has been somewhat rainy for the past couple of days, but today was beautiful - a nice send off before heading to New Delhi where the air won't be as crisp, and the heat nearly unbearable. I was able to run both mornings in Central Park (don't tell my PT!), and I hit up some of the playgrounds from my nannying days when I was in NYC. I caught up with some close friends for dinner on Wednesday night, which was wonderful and I finally felt somewhat relaxed amidst this chaotic (organized chaos, of course) series of events.

Tomorrow will be a day of organizing, anticipating and galavanting around the city (if we can make it work - these girls [and their nanny and mother] are exhausted!) We fly out of Newark, NJ at 8:30 PM on a direct flight to New Delhi. As you're looking up towards the sky, watching the firecrackers burst in the air, think of us all the way up there.

I hope to write again soon, and imagine I will have some interesting news to report!

xoxo