Transitions & silly bands

Silly bands are my most important topic of the day because they were a gift from Kate who presented me with a package of the ones that glow in the dark. We all have dumb stuff that we like and that's it for me!

Of course my other most important present was from my husband and that was an Ipad. It's been my tech days because I also have a new Mac computer at the office so I am trying to stretch the possibilities and make them all work for me. The Ipad is really a great gift and I've toted it to work in a great red cover for the last two days! Kool moi. Arnie came into town on Thursday night and we all set off early Friday morning for the pre graduation breakfast in the meeting house courtyeard that kicked off Kate's graduation on June 10th from 8th grade. Just writing it makes me tear up which luckily I didn't do during the ceremony. I've gone from never crying to always crying. I'm sure I could easily get a job when I retire going to people's ceremonies and crying. It's like being a professional keener. I could charge for the tears or for the time spent weeping copiously. Anyway Spooky is in town for three months!!! and not working on Fridays so she came and Grandma Dot looking quite devine also came. I am very sad to have said farewell to parents and kids that I have known and seen on a regular basis for the last 9 years. We all started together in kindergaarten and now here we are with grown kids. Almost. The ceremony was simple as is the Quaker custom and then we took off for a favorite french restaurant on the lower east side. It was there that Arnie upstaged everybody with his present to Kate of an ipad. Mine came several days later. So lunch was a great success. French fries and an Ipad. What could be wrong.

Other festivities included an party for the kids that evening. A moving up party...barbecue festival in Madison Square Park which was a scene out of a New York movie because the entire area of Madison Park was perfumed by barbecue smoke and the area was littered with people sitting on the curbs hunched over small paper plates of ribs and other goodies. Impossible to get any food if you were seriously hungry. Shake Shack was crowded and if you thought that Eatley would be a good bet, think again bunky. So we bought some food to create our very own Italian al fresco and on the way home bumped into the Hari Krishnas as part of a very loud pink and bright blue Krishna parade. Just a little bit of paradise.

We are back to normal now altbough Kate has no school and I am enjoying her vacation thorougly.