AND SNIFFLY SUNDAY WALKS TOO

the holbrooks are a mess of seasonal allergies and change-in-the-weather sniffles these days. oh brother. and it seems like huck's runny nose has figured out how to come and go based on the situation. for instance, on a saturday afternoon he was dry as a bone ,but five minutes into church and he looks like a teeming cesspool of pestilence, and the last thing i'm going to do is keep my "looks sick" kid at church in case he really is sick, because then i'd have to forfeit my "keep your sick kids home!" moral high ground. moral high ground is so hard to come by these days. fiscal cliffs! 

i think huck's runny nose is conspiring to make us look bad, is what.  

so sunday morning found us in our usual routine, where i'm always running 15 minutes late so the boys go on ahead of me and save me a spot, when brandon texted to tell me that huck's nose had started it's usual theatrics once they'd settled in, so they were coming home. i was mid brushing my hair but managed to crawl back in bed before i'd even finished tapping out "sounds good" in response. 

four hours and a huge pan of rice krispy treats later and huck was all healthy as a horse and our cabin fever had set in, so we went out for a walk. 

and congratulations, you have just sat through two paragraphs and two sentences all about henry's runny nose. yeahhhhh.

but the weather was just perfect and the leaves were actually swirling. all around! it was pretty ideal. 

good. our failing health and the weather. now we've about covered it.

sooo, i instagrammed this one and it made it to the popular page, so life goal achieved. 

i'd always wondered what that would feel like and it turns out it feels just like deleting a million spam comments would feel.

i'm fairly convinced that most of the 6,000 new followers it got me are mostly robots.

(you read that right. six thousand. whaaaaaat?)

but in case you want to follow and aren't a robot, my instagram account is @natthefatrat.

(i'm pretty sure the fuss will die down soon... right?)

the upper west is in FULL FALL REGALIA.

always a pleasure to see it. thanks, central park.