It has been at least a couple of years since Marcy went away for the weekend. But this weekend Marcy decided to go on a yoga retreat while I took care of the kids. We ended up having a great time.

We kicked the weekend off with Anna’s Lantern Walk with her Morning Glory classmates in kindergarten. It is a really great Waldorf tradition where they make lanterns and then light a candle and walk to the local park in the darkness.

Then Saturday morning we did something important. We opened savings accounts for Jude and Anna. We went down to the local bank and deposited $25 each to open their account. From now on we are going to encourage them both to save some of their allowance every week and deposit into the bank.

We went from the bank up to Keystone for our first try of skiing this season. We bought season passes for the whole family (under $1,000 total which I thought was a good deal) so it didn’t matter if we just went up for an hour. That was about all I thought we should do this first time out with just me looking out for them both. 

Heading up the gondola at Keystone for the first run of the season

So, it turned out they did great. Jude picked up right where he left off last year, he was able to turn right away and stop easily. Anna needed a couple of runs to get used to turning and stopping but she was very steady on her feet right away. And within a couple of runs she had the hang of stopping.

They have had some good early snow at Keystone and we drove home from Keystone as a big storm was moving in.

Jude worked really hard raking leaves into piles

Today was spent doing some yard work. We finally packed up all the leaves in our front yard, filling 10 large bags. Both Jude and Anna were good helpers here, Jude with the rake and Anna with the snow shovel piling all the leaves into the bags.

Anna getting ready to go to her ballet recital

Then this afternoon we had Anna’s ballet recital. With Marcy away Anna had to get herself ready and she spent quite a bit of time doing her own hair. And she had a ball at the recital, she didn’t seem nervous at all. I think she liked being the center of attention.

Anna showing her style at her ballet recital