Thursday

Was a full day. Took MoJo to feed Ana the cat, to the market, came home to host twin boy friends of J for a play date. When they left at noon we went to meet tía D for lunch. Yummy greasy grilled cheese. M got picked up by friend. Ran lots of errands, including haircut with J* and then took him to a friend's house. I meant to ask to leave the bags of crap I had with me there but the Asian nanny barely cracked open the door, hardly spoke English (reassuring I know) and I decided to run home to drop stuff off. Train to BT where I finally made some significant progress with the BT auction ceramics. Ran back to get J and then home so I could get M as she was dropped off. Post dinner we went to see our first film at the New Directors New Films Festival. Amazing. Check out http://skipriporplay.blogspot.com/ my other, semi- abandoned blog soon for a review of this incredible film. Long full day. Today brought lots of sun and an impromptu picnic with MoJo. J is off shopping with abuela and M and I are hanging until the bebés return. Mystic here we come tomorrow!
*I took J to a kid's haircutting place, a chain I avoided like the plague since it is a toy store with a hair place nestled inside the marketing nightmare. F complains that the Harlem barber butchers his hair so I spent $32!! (instead of $8) to get an I must admit cute cut. They offered him a video game or a movie while he got his hair cut. Only in NYC, how weird and detached and condescending. J looked at the lady like she was crazy and turned down all 17 of her movie offers. Then the chair, vehicle chair or regular chair? J opted for the regular chair. He was, like me, confused by all of the dumb distractions.