{"id":131,"date":"2007-05-09T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/05\/09\/my-happy-birthday\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:31:00","slug":"my-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/my-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The short version: My husband surprised me with a long weekend in NY to see my friends.<\/p>\n

The long version:<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, May 3, 2007, we were having a very nice dinner on our back patio–it was warm, we’d all been swiming, Andrew played a CD he made me of birthday music he thought I’d like and he’d just swept me away to dance. When the song was over we started cleaning up and I hear, “Hellooooooo!”<\/p>\n

My Mom’s head appeared over the fence and the boys went nuts. We had her walk around to the back gate where she was overwhelmed by kid-love from my sons.<\/p>\n

I looked at Andrew and half-whispered, “So…weird…I mean it’s nice and all but why is she here?”<\/p>\n

“We have to go to dinner,” and that little twitching smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.<\/p>\n

“But we’re going to dinner tomorrow<\/span>, Friday<\/span><\/span> night.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, but we have to get there.” Then he handed me a card with my itinerary.<\/p>\n

Early Friday: Fly to NYC
Friday night: Dinner at One if by Land, Two if by Sea<\/a>, drinks and singing at Marie’s Crisis.<\/p>\n

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Satuday morning: Breakfast in Bed via Roomservice
Saturday day: open (we went to the Met and walked through Central Park)<\/p>\n

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Saturday night: dinner with Jackie, Liisa, and Pam.<\/p>\n

Sunday day: laze around Croton and the Black Cow.
Sunday night: home.<\/p>\n

So for my fortieth…the real surprise (on my actual birthday) was a surprise party at my friend Pam’s house. People I hadn’t seen in years<\/span> showed up. It was one of those “this is your life” moment and…I wept all the way back to the airport.<\/p>\n

In my adult life, I’ve never had to move because I should<\/span>, only because I was sick of somewhere or really wanted<\/span> to move. I loved<\/span> Croton-on-Hudson. I love all my friends there. I love New York (though the humidity is for the birds). And it was very very hard to leave.<\/p>\n

We were both sad, actually, and I wept most of the way to JFK–and not just because of the traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short version: My husband surprised me with a long weekend in NY to see my friends. The long version: Last Thursday, May 3, 2007, we were having a very nice dinner on our back patio–it was warm, we’d all been swiming, Andrew played a CD he made me of birthday music he thought I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}