Author: Doris

Went to Melvin Chen’s piano conert at Bard. Amazing 90 minute concert with pieces from 5 composers all from memory. Bob and Katherine had a party at their house after the concert and we all were congratulating Melvin and asked how he performed so much music from memory. He said that if he forgot what came next, he just *get this*, he just made it up! Who knew?

Before the concert, we took a long dog walk with the kids and headed down to Blythewood and let the doggies run off leash. That was a lot of fun. It’s was a beautiful day here.

Mom decided to retire after May officially. She is going to leave Richland in April. Mom is asking:

1) May be, 8th or 15th of April, if you have time, help Mom to move from Richland to Washougal. Mom does not have too much things to move. A weekend is enough.

2) On April 17th, we are going to Las Vegas and ready to tour the country for a month with our friend and his wife using his Ford. I don’t know where exactly we are going. Do we have any volunteer to check our email on “mail2web” if case we have access problems?

Dad will continue to find some part time jobs to cover some of our bills. We will be together permanently. 7 1/2 years of commuting is just too much for both of us.

Tonight we invited Chee-Chow and his wife Michelle over for dinner. Turns out that Michelle grew up in Maryland, not far from where we grew up. Jeremy invited them over at 5 and the dinner of beef stroganoff was on the table by 5:20pm! Vince acted pretty grouchy tonight and Edda was very fussy, so they left at about 8pm.

Michelle with Edda and Vince.

We went to Barnes and Noble and bought guide books for France and Germany. We were out soo late. Oh well.

Everyday Vince gets up now and says “Today is my birthday!” Then he says that he wants to bake his birthday cake.

Reading good night story.

Vince with his wares.

This is Vince enjoying his pizza at preschool. This is Preschool Room 3 , Pat is his teacher. Around the table are Tina, Dennis, Daniel and Michael.

Pizza day!