I keep this blog for friends, family and students in Japan& the U.S.

Since Spring '07, Zen and Taka moved to California full time for Zen's basketball career. I'm in California most of the time right now too. Almost every day I go to help my Grandmom. She was born in 1919. Taka and I also get to work for Uncle Lynn's landscaping company. Santa Cruz, California. As beautiful as ever. However I still feel homesick for Japan~~

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Friends and Family catching up~and more~~

When Ischin was here (until January 7th, when Kahori stayed on after he flew back to Japan) we got to have time with Grandmom, Uncle Lynn and Lorraine.
Grandmom will be 91 in May!

And then we got a special treat, well especially ME, I got to see my dear old friend LENA MORIMOTO!!!
And we got to meet her friends that we'd been in touch with but had not been able to connect with until they all drove down from S.F.Lena and I met when Ischin and her son Yuya were about a year old! So 25 years ago?!! Lena also was our midwife for when Zen was born~ and...and... oh the tales! There's her youngest, Sen all the way to the left, just younger than our boy Zen. (And friends Mark and Junko from S.F. all of us down on Pleasant Point Beach)

It's been RAINY in California for more than a week. I've never gotten into the habit of using clothes dryers, I prefer hanging our clothes to dry, and this is where I've had to do it. Our fireplace is gas and doesn't generate a whole heck of a lot of heat, but... enough to help during these rainy days~
Otherwise our hanger (which I brought to California from Japan) is outside drying our clothes in the sun usually~ (notice the planter pots upside down drying~they'd overflowed with all the rain, I was trying to do right by the plants)
Oh and here is some cool work our boy has had for school tests. His final test for Trigonometry, these were notes he was allowed to take into class to use on the final exam.I wish I could get some of his big brother's school work to share with you too! Our kids are working hard and I must admit I am proud!!

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