LITTLE STEPS: Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!

Hello guys, hope you are all doing well. I wanted to share with you a little bit of happiness going on in my life in New York City.

Besides it getting colder by the minute we had the start of the fun end of the year festivities! I love Halloween, I must say it has always been a fun thing for me. Living here in NYC you have to get creative and have lots of friends in different places. Now that Maia is three and a half, and going to school everyday I have made what I can call... the best group of friends ever. Last year I met the most amazing group of mama's around. We are very good at getting together not only with the kids but also getting together once or twice or even three times a month for drinks, movie nights and dinner.

This idea of getting together all the time has not only made us a closer group but also has made us better moms. Going out for drinks with the girls and talking about all kinds of things including the bad things, makes us get home feeling like we could live up to our own grand expectations of being great parents. Happy to be honest and not deny that we do chat about the hubbies too, and their little things that drives us nuts, or that melt our hearts. The kids also are a big part of our conversations, their phases of whining, bad eating days, sick days and most of all how to make them get through these without driving us up the wall.

I have to say, it just feels good getting things of your chest to other moms that have experienced the same and getting feedback on how to fix things. We all love our kids but its the reality that sometimes they drive us nuts and take us to the end of the quality of being patient, as bearing of provocation, anoyance, loss of temper, irritation or the like.

There are ways to keep it cool, and between all of us there is always someone that can help with the problem.

Yesterday for halloween we all got together, the kids dressed up and we all went to the Kips Bay towers for a halloween parade for the kids, glow sticks, trick or treating and apple juice. At the end our friend Thea and her man invited us over for drinks while all the kids just played in the room next door and we could sit relax and have a much needed glass of wine. I dressed up as Twiggy and my husband was Andy Warhol. It was so much fun!

here are some pics of our wonderful night.

I love you guys!