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Busy busy weekend with a major and final test at Chapin for the ISEEEfor Kate as we go through this process of deciding where we are living and where she is going to high school. For the New York City schools it's all about crowded control and I suppose for the private schools it's the same thing. But Saturday we arrived at Chapin, sort of blast from the past for me because they were my arch enemies when I was at the Brearley. I and many other parents discovered on site that we were expected to bring proof of identity. Something which none of these hyper organized parents had known about because they changed their information format and had none of that information on the letter aka ticket for admission. So I am thinking OMG I'll have to go home and get some id for Kate, OMG we'll have to take the test another day when Kate was able to log onto her facebook page and prove that she was herself. Nicely done.

I got to spend time with Dorothy and be totally coddled with freshly made oatmaal, tea and generally sympathetic conversation. Then Kate and I went off to celebrate at McDonalds. She celebrated and I drank black coffee. An interim and then off to soccer and then back for a dinner chez nous with kathy and Buff.

But Sunday was the best for me. Kate went off to Chinatown with Melanie and I didn't. I didn't do a thing. Well almost nothing. I actually made a flying trip to Bloomingdales and what a luxury that was. I swooped in and swooped out without having to go to every floor and touch everything. My goal was to replace my favorite black cashmere head band and also replace my totally tattered orange suitcase. Successful on both counts and then I was whisked home to sloth out.

I'm having trouble reading anything but its probably because my internal life is chaotic. Balance. I need balance...

And tomorrow, I've just learned, is a snow day for Kate. OMG. I know I'll have to come to work but she, lucky duck, will be able to romp and gamble in the snow!