Turkey Day 2007

On Wednesday all four kids and I left for MI while Jim left for Japan. We stayed at my sister Susan's place in Ann Arbor. My b.i.l. Cary is Peter's Godfather and he spent lots of time with both Pete & Mitch in his music studio. Pete became quite adept at creating "sound" stories on the synthesizer and played some song bites on it too. Mitchell was a natural on the drums & piano. Mitch will start drum lessons after the 1st of the year and we're very excited about that because drumming really calms and centers him. And he really is amazingly good! Ros & John had a great time in Susan's art studio painting pictures the way real artists do. Not to mention all the kids had a great time playing with their cousin Ella. After dinner on Thursday, Mitchell stayed in MI to spend a special weekend with his God-papa Brian while I loaded Peter, Ros & John into the van and we headed up to Whitby ON, northeast of Toronto, for a Silver Sticks tourney. Jim flew in from Japan on Friday evening to join us and he was able to catch the last game on Saturday morning. Petey's team was eliminated by 7/100ths of a point. Bummer, but Pete played some of his best hockey ever. In fact the coach has now moved him up a line and he is the #2 center. Way to go Petey! That afternoon the 5 of us headed back to the States and stayed in Lansing at my sister Rhonda's place. Brian returned Mitchell to us on Sunday and then the 6 of us headed back to Chi-town. Over 1000 miles on the van later, I need a vacation. Of course I'd settle for a few days on the couch like George. That's pretty much all he's been doing since returning from the kennel. Poor, neglected, deprived doggie!


Mitchell in Uncle Cary's studio.


The kids at A. Susan & U. Cary's house.


The rest of us in the new dining room.