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a good day to be a mom!!

Yesterday was a beautiful day. It was more like summer than spring.
After the boys came home from school and got their homework done, they went to play outside.
They were there a long time, as I started to get dinner ready.
All of a sudden, they both came in and brought me tons of flowers they’d [...]

bird watching for city folk

Have you heard about bird-watchers?  I think they go on special trips, just to spot birds.  They carry around a birding book, in order to identify the birds they come across.  They can tell what kind of bird is around, just by their call.  It’s amazing, and yet, I can’t say I’ve ever had the [...]

garden discoveries

Every other day, I walk back to our garden…

I look around for ripe tomatoes.  I also look around to see if there are any leaves that are dying or any other thing that needs to be done.  It’s exciting to be getting all these tomatoes without having done the sowing.

Besides the tomatoes, there are other [...]

the city girl will surprise you…

yeah, that’s me.  City girl, born and bred.

If you don’t know, I was born and spent all my childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil– “the most populous in Brazil, in South America and in the southern hemisphere.”

Then my family immigrated to the U.S. and I’ve lived in NYC for most of the rest of my life.  So, I am a city girl.

What [...]