The fun is now over and it is back to real life for me. We had a wonderful time in New York visiting with Son1, DIL1, Pip, Son3, DIL3, and DIL3's Mom. It was great watching all of the "firsts" Pip experienced and even better watching her learn so much, so quickly.
Just in case any of you are interested if you push the button to go to the lobby enough times you can also start saying "L-O-B-B-Y spells lobby" each time you press it. I truly love watching beginning readers as they find so much excitement learning to read familiar words. I also love hearing a child's curious request for the definition of unfamiliar words like "sturdy" or "ostracized".
And now that we are back it is probably time for me to recount our meals for the week. Instead of doing that I will just say we ate out and ate well. If you are in the city and have a hankering for Dominican food, I will highly recommend Malecon on 175th and Broadway up in Washington Heights. Order the roast chicken and mofongo and you will not be disappointed. It was beyond delicious. While we were in the neighborhood we also hit a Cuban bakery on the corner of161st and Broadway. I do not remember the name of it, but try their pastries and the Cafe con Leche. It was the best Cuban coffee I have ever had and the pastries were exceptional.
Unfortunately for our taste buds we are in our regular boring everyday world and way of eating. This week I am totally uninspired but am going to cook anyway. In no particular order this is what we are having, maybe. (Only if all the planets align correctly and I feel like making whatever is planned)
1. Bookclub night so I am going out to eat Thai. TheHub will fend for himself
2. Dominican roast chicken with garlic sauce, potato salad or caulitato salad, green salad
3. Tacos or taco salad with all the fixings.
4. BLT salad, rolls or keto rolls
5. Pasta or zoodles with alfredo sauce, spinach salad
6. Something grilled (fish or chicken) grilled onions and mushrooms, broccoli, tossed salad
You might notice a salad theme going on. The weather is getting hot and we eat a lot of salad based meals during the hot weather. Goodbye soup and stew and anything similar until late October. Hello grilled foods and salads!
We are opening the pool this week and getting ready for the summer since it is here now!
Just in case any of you are interested if you push the button to go to the lobby enough times you can also start saying "L-O-B-B-Y spells lobby" each time you press it. I truly love watching beginning readers as they find so much excitement learning to read familiar words. I also love hearing a child's curious request for the definition of unfamiliar words like "sturdy" or "ostracized".
And now that we are back it is probably time for me to recount our meals for the week. Instead of doing that I will just say we ate out and ate well. If you are in the city and have a hankering for Dominican food, I will highly recommend Malecon on 175th and Broadway up in Washington Heights. Order the roast chicken and mofongo and you will not be disappointed. It was beyond delicious. While we were in the neighborhood we also hit a Cuban bakery on the corner of161st and Broadway. I do not remember the name of it, but try their pastries and the Cafe con Leche. It was the best Cuban coffee I have ever had and the pastries were exceptional.
Unfortunately for our taste buds we are in our regular boring everyday world and way of eating. This week I am totally uninspired but am going to cook anyway. In no particular order this is what we are having, maybe. (Only if all the planets align correctly and I feel like making whatever is planned)
1. Bookclub night so I am going out to eat Thai. TheHub will fend for himself
2. Dominican roast chicken with garlic sauce, potato salad or caulitato salad, green salad
3. Tacos or taco salad with all the fixings.
4. BLT salad, rolls or keto rolls
5. Pasta or zoodles with alfredo sauce, spinach salad
6. Something grilled (fish or chicken) grilled onions and mushrooms, broccoli, tossed salad
You might notice a salad theme going on. The weather is getting hot and we eat a lot of salad based meals during the hot weather. Goodbye soup and stew and anything similar until late October. Hello grilled foods and salads!
We are opening the pool this week and getting ready for the summer since it is here now!
Yeah the pool and salad and ice tea and lemonade and How is mom?
ReplyDeleteMom is not happy she has help, but the sister and I needed it as much if not more than she did. At least now she is taking her meds daily without a fuss. Amazingly she will not yell at Tierra when told to take her medicines like she yells at us when we tell her to.
DeleteWelcome back! Sounds like you had a great time! Lucky you to have warm weather - it got cold here, and I have the heater on!
ReplyDeleteWe had a lot of fun but I am almost glad to be back! It is unofficially summer here and time to start living like it is summer.
DeleteThat sounds like a lovely time for you all - New York, of course, but more importantly getting to be with family! How lovely. I'm so glad you had a break and like you say, your mom won't yell at Tierra!
ReplyDeleteI love New York as long as I don't have to be around midtown. This trip was all about the family and it was great.
DeleteI am really glad you had such a wonderful break. You needed it.
ReplyDeleteAs you say goodbye to soups they are *starting* to enter our consiousness. Nearly. Salads are still on my list at least. Himself is not convinced - so I made him a beef in red wine casserole last week.
I think your weather is sort of like ours and on the extreme weather scope. We have very little true winter here. In fact we have very little true spring or fall. We have summer, nearly summer, just past summer and almost winter.
Deleteplease send some heat up our way, it's flipping cold here in Southern Ontario
ReplyDeleteIt will happen there, it just happens a lot faster here.
Deletesounds like a great time. Glad you found someone to help with your mom.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad we found help for Mom but she seems to think Tierra is her gues and we should still do all the things she wants done. Gotta have a change in thinking there!
DeleteSounds like your trip to NY was a good one .The food you ate sounds delicious. That's part of the fun of a trip is eating different foods. I like swimming so much, but don't care for the heat that much. HOpefully this won't be too hot of a summer.
ReplyDeleteI love swimming and especially night swimming. Sometimes it is too hot during the day to swim laps but it is great at night.
DeleteSounds like you had a great time! NYC is such a great place for eating -- you can find almost anything there. Hard to get back to the routine, isn't it? But you've got some good stuff planned this week -- we've been eating a lot of salads, too. BLT salad is one we have often during the warm months.
ReplyDeleteWe are huge summer salad eaters, mainly because it gets too hot to cook many days.
DeleteSo glad you had a good time, you have got the best taste in cultural restaurants!
ReplyDeleteWe try to eat ethnic foods we can't find here easily when we are there.
DeleteAww, y'all were in my old 'hood, the Heights (181st and Broadway for me). Ethnic food is the best! Glad your mom is getting some help and you and your sister are getting a break.
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