MICHIGAN ADVENTURE

Sergei (in back, with hand up) at Michigan Adventure yesterday with the Summit Secondary.  This is not all of the kids, obviously.  I felt sorry for them all day because it was so cold and rainy, but apparently it was not raining there and it wasn't as chilly - and no one, hardly, was at the park - so they had an enormously good time.  I'm so glad.

MOTHERS DAY

I think this is the first non-school Mothers Day gift I ever got from a child  (Aidan and Lydia sometimes remember as adults).  My sweet Sergei made this for me and had it waiting on the table. What a dear boy!

IMAGINATION CAN BE BETTER THAN REALITY

Sergei picked up the plastic cover of the cake and sniffed it appreciativly, then recalled, "We used to always pick these up and smell them when we'd find them."  Just as my heart began to weep for the little orphan who had to smell the box, rather than ever get the cake, he commented, "They don't really taste as good as we thought they did," 

I supposed that since he smelled the containers of Russian cakes - perhaps they did.  ?

VALENTINE PARTY

There was a Valentines Dance at school last night.  I was amused at the end when they turned on the lights and kids in their good clothes mingled on the gym floor.  (That's Sergei back there with a basketball in his hand.)  The gorgeous girl in the center is an exchange student from South Korea.  She is one of the prettiest girls I think I've ever seen in my life. 

WINTER BLAST

The secondary students went on a weekend "camp", leaving Friday afternoon. Sergei went, but Anastasia didn't want to go because we had Russian school.  Also, I think she is beginning to recognize her limits.