I was helping my friend Stephanie plan a trip for her and her daughter Avery. The more we planned I could feel my NYC envy kicking in. After an hour on the phone one day helping make plans Halle said, “Mom, you know what would be easier than all these phone calls? Us just going…
This was kind of a hectic trip. And NYC felt more gritty than it usually does. I didn’t really notice that in April, but maybe that’s because the weather was bad? We were also all pretty tired. It was hard to muster the energy the city requires. We didn’t really have many plans going in….
Halle could not think of a single thing she wanted for Christmas this year. So….I schemed a trip to NYC so we could do all the fun Christmas things together. Halle was totally on board. She paid her plane ticket (we scored $180 round trip out of JFK), and I paid for the rest for…