<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">On the way over to Natalie's school this morning for her holiday breakfast, I stopped to take a photo.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Not that the photo did the parish house any justice but trust me, it looked like Christmas.
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Her class was decorated with an endless amount of projects by crafty Kindergarteners.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Natalie's gingerbread man is the first one. The yellow shirt and green shorts pearl necklace wearing man.
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">She was nice enough to step away from the breakfast to take a photo for me.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And soon after I was shooed out of the class along with the other parents.
</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr32.jpg" alt=""/><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">
		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Instead of going into the auditorium like we were supposed to do, many parents left.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I didn't get the memo we were supposed to stay or that jeans with skulls and bones on back pockets are in style.
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So I kept walking over to my breakfast meeting. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Behind the lady pushing one doggy in her grocery shopping cart as the other festive dog walked next to her.
</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr52.jpg" alt=""/><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">
		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Bare tree branches with weird pod like things growing on them caught my eye.
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">As did the wreaths on these windows 
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">There is nothing like Christmas in New York</span></p>