happy thanksgiving everybody!

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity... It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and a vision for tomorrow."
-Melodie Beattie

the seasons have changed from the present to past...

Adam had off work for Veteran's Day so we walked around Roosevelt Island and then visited Grandpa Robertson's grave at Cheltenham. It was a beautiful day.

these are a few of my favorite things...

Oatmeal cookies and the aroma that floats around my house for days after they have gone.

Listening to my husband trying to argue with a two-year-old about who technically owns our bathtub.
Trying a new recipe(preferably something new and exciting and that forces me to buy an ingredient I don't already have).
Both of my children napping at the same time.
A weeded garden.
That unconscious realm of sleep that only newborn babies seem to be able to tap in to.
Going to farmers markets to buy produce and whatever else looks tantalizing.
Sleeping with the windows open.
Candid pictures.

ps. we have adopted a kitten that was abandoned at adam's work... she sleeps in hats... her name is joni mitchell... cat stephens tried to teach her to climb our stairs yesterday.