The weekend events with family and friends are still fresh in my mind this Monday morning. Here is a brief recounting.
Saturday was our usual "chore day," a time for all of us to pitch in with the cleaning and organizing. That afternoon, while I was on the grocery shopping run, the kids, Annette, and a friend from Homer went ice skating at Westchester Lagoon. In the evening, we extended my birthday celebration--which was last Wednesday, January 26th--by sharing a meal and cake with a couple friends. I prepared the vegetable stew; Costco baked the bread; and Annette made the Lady Baltimore cake, a family favorite passed down from her great-grandmother.
On Sunday, after sitting zazen at the Anchorage Zen Community in the morning, I hung out with kids--Asa, Eva, Zena, and one of their friends--for a couple hours while Annette attended a board meeting.The kids made paper airplanes and hats, played with cars and trucks, and created music with drums, bells, a recorder, and their voices. In the afternoon, we all went for a ski at Russian Jack Park, joined by another family. Asa has become quite the skier, thanks to training with Jr. Nordic and regular outings at his Waldorf school. Yesterday was Eva's first time on skis, but you wouldn't have known it given the ease at which glided along the trails. We ended the day with a wonderful dinner at another family's house in our neighborhood.
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