A field trip realization...

As I woke up this morning I missed the blog, so I decided to not neglect it any further.
The weather in the city has been amazing the past couple days. It indeed feels like spring in January. The city feels so much different. I woke up to pouring rain on Friday, and when we walked around that evening the city had a certain freshness. The rain had come and washed away all the harshness from the bitter weather just a week ago.

The past week was busy. We took the kids to the Museum of Natural History. The museum is all it is billed to be. I struggled to keep an eye on the kids because I too was enamored with all the sights. The observer in me loved most when we entered the room with the T-rex and the Brontosaurus. The Brontosaurus extended all the way to the ceiling of the great hall, and as the kids looked up and followed the neck all the way to the top, they almost fell backwards due the height. I have to admit, I wasn’t quite ready for this trip. The week at school was unorganized and chaotic. The upper grade students were taking “the test” and since we are an “open corridor” school the lower grade classes were up rooted and moved all over like educational nomads. By Thursday, my patience was rattled and on edge. The moments we got on the bus and started to drive, the kids innocence and pure excitement chipped away at that. They were obsessed with the Hudson River. As we drove down the Henry Hudson Parkway, they screamed and yelled at every boat. Their imaginations flourished. Some had ice skated across it when they were younger, some saw sharks, some saw a rocket ship take off from right in the middle of the water. Every park we saw, they had been there, and as we drove cross down on the upper west side, they all had lived in the gorgeous brown stones and luxurious buildings with doormen. By the end of the whole trip, I was indeed exhausted. But, the kids had shown me what I loved most about them. No matter, what the circumstance or what the background, children can instantaneously leave their reality. They can send themselves off to these exciting and imaginative places without any effort. I am realizing that the ability to do so, is what keeps me coming back. It is something that I am learning from them. Life always seems so complicated. Life at times seems to have nothing but dead ends. But these 6 year olds from the Bronx, have taught we that no matter how bad you think it is, you can take yourself somewhere within that blocks out everything else around you. They really are amazing…

Im Back!!

Well, this will be a quickie,

I decided I would not write until I found my New Year's resolution,
so here I am!

It is quick and easy....

FIND THE JOY IN LIFE!!

Pretty easy huh?
I have a quarter life behind me,
and I want the next quarter to be filled with tons of fun memories.

No more holding back,
I am laying it all out there,
and approaching life with open eyes and enthusiasm.

So there it is folks!
I even bought my soundtrack today...

30 greatest hits of ARETHA FRANKLIN!

How can me even pay attention to any female artists these days
when there existed a time of Aretha's prime.
No one compares...