Winter Wonderland

You would think that packing would be a cinch for me by now. I should be able to do it with my eyes closed, right? Well, generally that would be true. But for whatever silly reason, on this trip to NY I sorely underestimated the whims of Mother Nature. How could she give me sunshine one day (cue all the adorable Chanel tweeds and inappropriate shoes I packed) and biting, snowy weather the next?

But where there’s a downside for my sartorial choices, there’s an upside for my photo ops. You can’t experience the beauty of nature without some discomfort. If kids don’t mind running around in the winter wonderland all day long, who am I to whine?

Yes, that’s Lil A outside of her school. 

NYC is a city of many tasks for me: visiting the kids, meeting people for work projects, dashing in and out of stores, checking out great food, and of course, dashing in and out of stores again, especially around Soho where the Converse store is one of my favorite places to browse.

On this day they had a whole wall of Missoni x Converse sneakers, and the salesperson told me I fit right in with the pair on my feet.

Little did he know about the madness back in my hotel room!

Well, dear readers, I don’t know why I should even touch a public phone without gloves on these days in that pic, but the pink jacket in the photo is a good way for me to tie up today’s post. It’s been a pink state of mind for me on this trip, and this shiny wallet on a chain is my little souvenir from the only city that I would give up LA for!

January 15, 2015