Eating Day

Yet another lovely eating day and Sasha astounds me again. Two kids and another on the way and yet she manages to whomp up an amazing meal of home-made noodles with a sherry cream sauce, home-made ice cream, and rhubarb desert. Tiger made his baby field green salad, this time with Gorgonzola cheese instead of feta—very interesting, but never to be repeated. The Gorgonzola, that is.

I am constantly amazed at the levels of intimacy in conversation that we are able to have with Mike and Sasha. No subject is off limits. We even (finally) spent time in prayer together. I have to admit that I was intimidated to pray with them, which I admit is silly, especially since we have discussed nearly every topic and Sasha was there at the birth of my daughter—the woman has seen me more than naked! As it turns out being friends with us is affecting their love-life! Let me explain. Mike is a server at a nice restaurant, therefore he works mainly nights and weekends. He is finishing University by taking night classes, and they like us so much that they are spending their free nights with us (and we all stay up much too late), and they are wanting to spend all of their free nights with us, therefore cutting into their “personal” time (much harder with two kids and co-sleeping as well). It is both funny, sad, and flattering. They just enjoy hanging out with us that much! Mike will be done with school soon, and hopefully he will be able to find a job with “normal” hours, freeing up more evenings. And hopefully the four of us will find the self-control not to hang out every night of the week. It is astounding that we are not sick of each other yet, but, on the contrary, we seem to grow closer and have more to talk about every time. Last eating day Emily invited us to live with them (we can bring Josh and the puppies, too), and this time she was certain that we would spend the night saying, “See you in the morning!” on her way to bed. 