I like hosting events...
Jan. 29th, 2007 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayEven though I was ready to pull out hair an hour beforehand, when I couldn't find our big thermos jug for cider... our ice skating party came together and I enjoyed it. We had 22 people, 16 of them skating. 13 adults and 9 kids was a good balance, too.
Kudos tocyan_blue for helping at the door, to tenacious_snail for bringing supplies and particularly to patgreene for her hours spent baking and running errands. :) I felt loved and supported. And got to spend time with kids and friends and sweeties... helped some of the kids skate for the first time (Maddie and Sprout/David). And skated with Teri and Les and Geri and Kevin and David, and hung out with groups of friends, some of whom don't otherwise overlap much. Les said that I was practically glowing by the end, although that was probably just sweat ;).
Otherwise... today I test-fit and left in place the new stainless countertop in the kitchen...
Kudos to
cyan_blue for helping at the door, to tenacious_snail for bringing supplies and particularly to patgreene for her hours spent baking and running errands. :) I felt loved and supported. And got to spend time with kids and friends and sweeties... helped some of the kids skate for the first time (Maddie and Sprout/David). And skated with Teri and Les and Geri and Kevin and David, and hung out with groups of friends, some of whom don't otherwise overlap much. Les said that I was practically glowing by the end, although that was probably just sweat ;). Otherwise... today I test-fit and left in place the new stainless countertop in the kitchen...
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it was 50 years ago today...
Date: 2007-01-29 11:42 pm (UTC)I wrote to my mother about the skating party last night, and got back this note that left me just awed with the sweet sentimentality of it:
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Dear Geri: It brings back memories of us skating together in 'the mountains.' By the way, your parents First Date together was in Central Park and we went ice skating at the Wollman Memorial Rink! (Actually, I couldn't skate then, but your Father could and he dragged me around.) Afterwards, we took a walk, and he kissed me under one of the bridges...my first French Kiss! (I was a very naive 15 year old.)
Love, Mom
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Wow. That would have been just about 50 years ago. (And my father took me to that same rink to teach me how to skate for the first time when I was 6, about 30 years ago.)
Years later, I do seem to have inherited my parents' association of ice skating with romance :-) *kiss*