I just love the picture

This photo is from when the college kids were here for spring break, and the whole Brooklyn-Astoria contingent came over for dinner on the only night that week that my son wasn't on shift at the firehouse. I just wanted to post the picture. We all caught up on episodes of Survivor over dinner and labrish and wine. I love nothing more than these evenings with my kids and their loves and assorted cousins. We're all headed to Dallas tomorrow for more of the same, as my niece Leisa and her husband Grant will become parents in a bit more than a month, and my daughter is throwing their baby shower. She's planned the whole thing from New York with impressive event skills, I'd say. I marvel sometimes at how competent my children are. If you knew the dreamy girl my daughter used to be you might marvel, too.