A Slovenian Dinner With Henry and James

Jennifer, James, Robert and Henry Kent

The Davis Family, Enjoying The Evening

We all are up earlier than usual, around 6:30, Mary taking Nick to school for a meeting at 6:45, Evie up as well to have her coffee and, a rare occurrence, we are watching Morning Joe on the Tube as we search the Net for something worth reading other than email and Facebook.  Today in Kansas City, it's still colder than Chautauqua, 26º at at the moment, down to 17º tonight but clear skies, no snow. Chautauqua may get six to ten inches of snow they predict.  It feels good to be ensconced in KC with Tom, Mary, and the family, and not have to drive anywhere.  At 8:00, we are off to Grandparents morning at Marlena's school.  This is the third time we have been able to participate which is great.

Yesterday was an open day, as the kids would be at school until 4:30, Tom at work, so I looked around for a yoga studio, found one, The Zen Zone, about three miles away so at 10:15, I drove off to a Yin Yoga class.  It was in a strip mall, but the studio itself was fine, large, wood floors, lots of accoutrement's to give it an Eastern feel.  Class was fine, different but the same, which is why I like to go to different teachers.  I have had lots of Yin classes but this one emphasized different poses, different connective tissues, the point of emphasis in Yin yoga.  And, as usual, I was the only guy in a class of twelve women, of various ages and shapes.  I am now comfortable enough to go to almost any yoga class so it was fun and made me feel good, since I have not done much exercising in the last few days unless you count sitting down at the table and chowing down on good food.

Marlena and Henry Surfing the Net

Mary worked out early, did some shopping and Evie and I also went out around 12:30 to the local mall, to see if we could find a new cellular Mini Ipad but no luck, Best Buy and AT&T don't have them and don't know when they will get them.  We will just have to keep checking to see if any store gets some in stock.  Apple is having a 'black Friday sale' on line or at the store but I doubt if this Ipad will be one sale.  We also hit TJ Maxx but did not stay long; neither one of us felt much like shopping though I did pick up a 10 inch fry pan, heavy with a nice feel and handle, to take the place of the one our buddy Mac gave us at least ten years ago.  It's strange how you become partial to a certain pot or pan and use if over and over again even if you have newer ones.

James Loves Bella

Niece Jennifer Kent

Evie's sister Jeannie came over around 3:30 for the afternoon, followed at 4:15 by her daughter Jennifer, husband Robert, and two boys, Henry and James.  We were having, as I mentioned yesterday a Slovenia dinner of Slovenian sausages from Azman's in Euclid, Ohio, and a peasant soup, beans, and potatoes.  Jennifer's boys are amazing, great fun to be around, Henry is now four and a half, a joy and spends most of the day smiling, just enjoying himself.  What a great kid, everyone loves him. And James is a typical two year old, into everything, curious and fun, ready for bear every moment of the day.  We all enjoyed the dinner ,even Nick went back for seconds, and Jean and family took some of the sausages home for lunch today.  We went through 18 total, counting today's lunches.  Everyone went home around 7:30 as the boys were getting tired.  It was a fun evening.  The rest of the night we sat around talking about cellular plans for the IPAD, trying to find a deal, and deciding what we were going to do on Tom's days off, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, where to eat, P.F. Changs or Bone fish.  Wednesday evening we all go to the local minor league hockey game as Marlena's school choir is singing the National Anthem.  That should be fun.  We all went upstairs around 10:30, tired and full from another day in KC.