Ramshackle Glam by Jordan Reid

Author:Jordan Reid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 978-0-7624-5305-4
Publisher: Running Press

Making the Move

I loved our Upper East Side apartment, with its built-in bookshelves and arched doorways and one closet and weird bathroom and no countertop and construction zone just outside. I really did. It was everything a young couple—and then a young family—just starting out on a life together needed. There was a diner that sold the best banana splits I’ve ever had just twenty feet away, and down the street lived a little puppy named Theodore who was so nervous that he carried his blue stuffed bunny in his mouth everywhere he went. In the summertime we walked down to the East River and drank iced coffees from a street vendor while we watched the boats go by. In the fall, we put on hats and boots and took the dogs to Central Park, where we bought warm pretzels to keep us company on a walk through the fallen leaves. And with the biggest snowfall of the year always came that moment right after it stopped, when the streets were quiet and empty of cars and people and we could run straight down the center of the avenue throwing snowballs, jumping through the drifts, and laughing like kids.

Living there wasn’t always easy—and once our son arrived wasn’t even close to a picnic—but it was real and wonderful and us.

It also couldn’t last forever. Eventually, we knew, our son would start crawling and then walking and then running, and those 750 square feet wouldn’t be enough to contain him. Or maybe they would.

But we didn’t want them to.

When I was about eight months pregnant, my husband and I developed a crush on a series of small towns nestled along New York’s Hudson River, just about an hour outside the city. We started making day trips to those towns, my husband planting both hands in the small of my back to push me and my stomach up the hills that angled steeply northeast from each town’s train station to its Main Street. We compared school systems, peeked into rambling Colonials, heard the sounds of baseball bats cracking in the hot evening air, and started seriously considering what it would be like to abandon the city that had been the backdrop of every single moment we had spent in our life together thus far.

We considered, we explored, we argued and examined and turned over and over, and then—slowly, slowly—we started making our way home.

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