it’s father’s day. and when you are a member of the dead dad’s club, it can really suck.

but this year, it’s also my Husband’s birthday and the anniversary of night we met.

and this year, the most heartbreaking thing is that my dad won’t know Bryan. he won’t know his incredible love for me, his unending support and compassion, his wit, his love of the Phillies, his easy going personality, his warm and welcoming family. he won’t witness how he makes me laugh, how much our family has made him one of our own, and simply how much i love him.

but on this day, and everyday, i thank you for the opportunities and experiences. for taking me to macy’s thanksgiving day parades, for buying me a demin jacket and madonna pin and taking me to battery park, for not leaving me at the statue of liberty, for driving around looking for that elusive pizza place you had the best slice at: you introduced me to new york city and as a nine year old, i knew one day i was going to live there.

thank you for driving to and from manhattan twice in two days so i could get a visa to study abroad in india and meet my good friend, sari.

and for when you died, challenging me and inspiring me to continue onto grad school, finding a profession i love. and all of these things (and sari) brought me to an east village bar on a friday night in june. and there i met the man who’d become my husband nearly two years later.

thank you. i miss you.

(photo by seth kaye photography)

We’ve been living together for a year at this point, and still have nothing on our walls. It’s a tricky situation, or is it? I keep saying, we aren’t going to be here forever, yet we will be for at least the next year. It’s hard to invest in furniture when we aren’t sure what our future homes may look like, and our current apartment is tiny. It’s basically two rooms, the GRAND room and the bedroom. The GRAND room being: the living room, foyer, dining room,  and kitchen. (I like calling in the GRAND room, with a large sweep of my arms.)

It’s a tiny West Village apartment and we love it. But we need stuff on the walls and it’s a challenge to find out where our tastes overlap.

Mirrors are a great solution- they help make the space look bigger. Apartment Therapy had an interview with Jonathan Adler today and I learned about this new website, 1st Dibs. And then found this stunning mirrors:

How cool are they? I love the idea of the set hanging next to each other like eyes.