Birthday Party

The guests have just left, except that we have four children sleeping with Maya. I cooked Ecuadorian specialities today, with 'locro de papa' and 'llapingachos' with chorizo and red onion and tomato salad with avocado. Dessert was a carrot cake (which Eric did not like). Daphne brought a bean salad, which we never actually ate, since there was too much food. The children played and ran around the house throwing pistachio nuts at each other.

We celebrated Eric's birthday today. I wanted Eric to ask many more people, but he wanted the Benichous and Noah and Susie and their children, and I asked Sarah and her mother to stay after Maya and Sarah played together all afternoon. I like to cook, and spent many hours in the kitchen (slaving away). Eric and I work well together and the party was a success. Eric wanted us all to drink alot, but he made a limited amount of sangria, which disappeared very quickly. None of the children wanted to leave at the end of the evening, so they all found clothes to wear for the night and brushed their teeth, and cuddled together on the double bed on the floor of Tara's old attic room and talked and fiddled late into the night. Marius slept on his own nearby on the floor, and Eric is up there now trying to encourage them all to sleep.

Maya moved to Tara's room some weeks ago, but has not been able to sleep there. She joins me in my bed every night, and Eric was obliged to sleep upstairs or on the floor in the living area. It is musical beds every night. So I wonder what will happen tonight.

Maya started her 'Performance Academy' at Peabody today, starting at 8:30 AM until 3:00, with chamber music and orchestra and performance and theory. I know she wishes she could do ballet at the same time, but all of her ballet is on Saturdays too, so it is either ballet or violin and for now violin wins. I like that I have the time to go to yoga class and cook all day!

I guess Eric is upstairs for the night and I have my bed all to myself!