And for the rest of September & October

here's a few highlights:

Stroll around west village and highline with Zoe who was in NY for a few days.

Ruby climbing the rocks in Central Park in autumnal sun!

And surprise - more Ruby looking cute, with absolute - can go nowhere without - best friend Mickey

Thalia's 2nd birthday party. Very sweet.

And then it got to the end of October and the madness that is Halloween in this country. People go to TOWN. This is Ruby staring up at one of the houses across the road.

And then the next group of visitors - Lizzie, Meir, Tali, Yoni & Lia

It was a full house. 8 of us in the flat was cosy but good..Ruby loved being with her cousins, and I LOVED having my sister and seeing the kids (and you Meir of course).

Here we all are at the Brooklyn Childrens Museum.

We also checked out Crown Heights which was interesting...

I took Lizzie to a Sheryl Crow concert at Radio City (where we discovered how much younger than Sheryl's other fans we were), and took them to our favourite steakhouse. They were busy, did NYC to the full and I think (and hope despite me being quite miserable and sick for the entirety of their trip) had a good time...

Let's pick up where we left off - Al's parents visit

Lots of fun. Ruby particularly enjoyed being spoilt rotten by grandparents. I enjoyed being cooked for..sorry G and T would have written more about your trip but I've got alot of blog to catch up on! Suffice to say it was lovely to have them here.

The reason for the blog absence

It's been a really really long 13.5 weeks but I may just be coming out the other end. Starting to have pockets of the day where I don't want to throw up. I'm sure I'll be very happy once I get over this!