Here's a few of the pictures from our week-long trip to NYC. As one guide said - if you had a million dollars and a year, you might see the most of it.

We took a cab in from NJ to Manhattan island - Manhattan itself has about the same population as my home town (~1 million) but we're not packed into a 2x13 mile area.

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We've been hit by a string of bad luck recently. A nasty cold had been making the rounds at work - I caught it but couldn't stay home to recoup as because of deadlines & the fact that I was the system support.

It's made the rounds through the family - DD#1 caught it and ended up with a bronchial infection that caused her to miss a number of days from kindergarten.

Mrs. T caught it over the weekend - saw at doctor at a medicentre Monday as she didn't want to wait...

Free time is a little harder to come by this time of year - not only are the normal afternoon/evening activities still on-going, we also get the normal running around for holiday shopping, kids parties, activities, Christmas performances, etc.



In the end, though, I consider all the time spent well worth the investment...

I remember my mom telling how we used to ask for the same bedtime story night after night. Apparently she'd get so sick of reading the "The Little Red Engine That Could" that she'd even try hiding the book so we'd choose something different. We'd find it, though, and she'd have to read it once again.

It seems apparent that my girls have inherited the same genes - Emily, my three year old, got a new book from her aunty just before Halloween. I've read it every night for...

My goofy dad judgement may be colouring (Canadian spelling ) things, but it seems like my daughter's first report card from Kindergarten looks pretty good so far.

It's kind of interesting to read as there's no grading (yet?) but instead more of a general commentary/summary of what they've done to date. I'm going to have to dig out my old report cards as all I seem to remember is just the odd A/B/C/D/F rating with little or no comments. Kindergarten, of course, could be a whole...