Productive Weekend

We had a pretty productive Saturday.  I made a little art project; all of us went down to Chinatown to have lunch; we walked all the way up to the Union Sq to the farmer's market for our weekly vegetable;  I bought some art supplies at Blick Art.

But we totally forgot to do a very important thing while we were down in Chinatown, getting hair cut for Leo.  Forgetting a haircut while down in Chinatown never happened to us before.  Never!!  It is certainly a long way for us to get down there with Ev (stroller issue, no elevator, nap time...etc.)  Somehow, we were so busy tending our child, we just forgot to look at each other.  It was until we were strolling up closer to Union Sq.  and while sitting down getting a coffee,  Leo saw himself at the reflection of the window and saw his chiapet on the top of his head.   It was already too late to walk down because it is too far to push the stroller back to Chinatown.

It is very easy to neglect your partner once there is a child (or children) in the picture.   Today, I made a  new resolution- from now on,  I will make a conscious effort to pay attention to my partner!

Here is the art project I made this weekend!  yes, this is a zipper pouch made from scratch!

I have to mention a dim sum place I went this weekend.  Total disappointment!  We used to go there once a week, then it was closed for renovation.  It took the longest time to renovate and we thought the restaurant was closed down for good.  The restaurant used to look like the 1960s with fake wooden panel (actually it might be from the 1960s and was never renovated for 50 years) , and after renovation, it looks like early 1980s deco with mirror every where.  But I never expect any ambience when I have meal in Chinatown anyway.  This place must feel that it is now renovated and it should recoup its costs from the patrons.  And in order not to increase the price, it just added the filler in the food.  It is horrible.  Absolutely horrible.  I have not been able to go to any dim sum place after our trip to Hong Kong this past summer because the dim sum in Hong Kong is so good, so fresh, so no filler added.   Then when I found out our old time dim sum place reopened in Chinatown and we want to give it a try.  It just does not taste good anymore.  This always kills me when a restaurant started to cheap out on the ingredients and expect patrons not notice any changes.   What a pity!