From Zen! 
Aren't I one of the most fortunate Moms!!!
Yep, we celebrated American style.
But I heard about my daughters making chocolates in Japan, my girls, Japanese style!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Zen's friends, Kitabayashi Brothers!!! Came from Japan and to see Zen play
Out on the S.C. Wharf
Had to turn them onto clam chowder in a sour dough bread bowl.
Pergolessi Cafe, cool coffee shop, then down the block took them to The Baglery to get a lox and veggie bagel for the road.
Akira, on the left, played on the VSOG team in japan, how many years ago? When Zen was a Jr. High student. Akira is 26 now? And his younger brother on the right.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Youtube and the last minute and a half of the game last night!
The last game for the season before the tournament from next week~
Santa Cruz High finished 10 and 2 this year (compared to 5 and 7 last year with different Coaching) SCHigh Senior night 2/10/10.AVI
The news in the paper this morning~ read the comments too! THEY are pretty all-round all over the place!!
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_14379379
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Zen at basketball 1/2010
Zen's team with Santa Cruz High is awesome this year. The Head Coach is new, and a great number of assistants are working with the team.
The team is called The Cardinals.
And while I was away in Japan the beginning of January,
...after these photos were taken...
...in a practice one evening, on January 6th...
Zen had an accident. A ball was thrown straight into his right thumb, & from what I heard, the players around him also heard the crack. It was fractured. The dr. said he'd be out for at least 3 weeks.
Zen kept going to practices and worked on his left hand skills. From the bench Zen could be there for the team. (He was there with the white t-shirt on)
The team has been strong and only lost twice to one particular undefeated team.
But now, as of January 29th, three weeks and a day since the accident,
Zen's back in and playing. The first night back was a game on Friday the 29th. The team did win.
The next day one Assistant Coach wrote: Coaches note: Zen looked incredible last night. Confidence is not in question that's for sure. Felt like he got unleashed!
Tonight, February 3rd, is another big game. Here's to hoping my father's basketball loving spirit continues to watch over the grandson he never got to see in action while he was alive. Tonight my father's mother, Zen's Great Grandmom who's 90, will also attend the game with us. We're giving thanks!
[photos by Pam Iriguchi, thank you Pam]
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!!!
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!!
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)
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~
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!!Friday, January 15, 2010
Between California and Japan, where I've been these days~
I flew back to California, after a one week trip to Japan. The shortest I have ever done. I must admit, waking up in the dark hours of the morn these days, I wake up and first thought is "Oh- I need to fly somewhere today?".
So, with Ischin, and our friend Yaari (below) they got me to the airport.
And I have to admit, when dropping Sheon off at work before leaving for the airport, and then after leaving these guys, I cried. There's nothing like being torn between leaving children "behind" to be with another child, and also the man I love, Taka.
So, with Ischin, and our friend Yaari (below) they got me to the airport.
And I have to admit, when dropping Sheon off at work before leaving for the airport, and then after leaving these guys, I cried. There's nothing like being torn between leaving children "behind" to be with another child, and also the man I love, Taka.
But we do what we must do.
I would have loved to have "visited" these Japanese baths in the Tokyo airport. Instead I had a beer bought from the convenience store next door, and plugged in, got on line, and wrote on the 'net.
Hey, speaking of places for relief! I found this one john in the Portland airport with these devices happening! To save water!!
How cool is this? Pull up for...
How cool is this? Pull up for...
liquid wastes, and push down for that other crap~ for the bigger flush! Very cool, no?! (hey, this is coming from me, after having lived in Japan with outhouses INSIDE our homes for ten years I lived there! No FIFTEEN years!!!)
But yeah, me back in the States right now. I think it's going to take a little while to feel settled back into where Taka and Zen have called home for these days. Santa Cruz. Anyway, I arrived in San Francisco airport, after having gotten to watch Michael Jackson's movie on the plane, and went on into San Fran instead of driving straight back to Santa Cruz.
Taka and I drove back to Santa Cruz. Zen's team had a game that night. An important game, and since Zen fractured his thumb, he's not been able to play. But that game was a DOOZY!!! Zen's team won by one point against their rival team Harbor.
I hope to have photos up re that game soon, minus Zen, but still great!!!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sheon's big day!!! SEIJINSHIKI 1/10/09
We didn't get to go into the ceremony auditorium, but they had this set up for us family members~spectators~ pretty good alternative!
How many 20 year olds WERE there?!!
Lots, swarming, in the cold, but there was SUNSHINE in lotsa ways!!
Sheon, with one of her best and oldest friends Mari~
And Sheon, with her matching accessories~ THANK YOU Again Kahori!!
They looked amazing and oh, so happy!
They did keep talking about how they didn't match one another
Old friends~ yes, some guys wore suits, the tanned boy in blue and stripes was not wearing the "norm" for sure! The guy in white was closer to the normal traditional garb, except for the hairdo
Sheon's boyfriend, Fumiya, Sheon, me and Ischin
Three of my children "done" (ha, never done!!!) one to go! xoxoxox
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