Chess and a Nice Weekend.....

Zachary has a great passion for the game of Chess. We bought him a beautiful wooden chess board with hand-carved pieces for his birthday. He has beaten his father and I many times over the past few weeks and he only gets better. We rented Searching for Bobby Fisher this past weekend and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. When it was finished I of course noticed that at the end it gave an update on Josh Waitzkin, the story of whom the movie was about. How cool to learn that not only did he become a proficient and champion chess player but that he is awesome at martial arts as well and guess who else is interested in the martial arts? LOL Yep, our son. ;-)

This past weekend was very nice and relaxing. Saturday Donnie, the kids and I spent lounging by the pool and playing together. On Sunday, we had some friends and their children over for a visit, swimming and dinner. I believe that we all need weekends like that where you just do 'nothing'. Families need more time like that for just chilling out with not a care in the world for the lawn, or the weeds, or cleaning; they need it to just be. To be at one with nature, at one with their families and at one with their spirit.