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The Ladies Inter-club teams at The Potomac Tennis & Fitness Club started the 2012 spring season with a kick-off party and round-robin tennis event this past Sunday night. Hosted by Tennis Director John McDaniel, ladies from all four teams mixed things up on the court for several hours and then continued their festive mood with drinks and great food thereafter.
“That was fun the other night” Mary Stafford, captain of the Blue A team commented. “We all had a great time.” The idea of having a player from each team on each court not only gave all that participated a greater feel for the level of play on each team but it created a greater sense of club and team unity as they approach the new season. What do you say we do this again after the season is over as a victory party ladies.
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December 17, 2011 by
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By Susan Belford
Lynn Weatherby’s children’s books are her legacy of love. Her first book, “Lynn Marie’s Christmas” was written to record the treasured Christmas traditions from her Wisconsin childhood. She wanted her adult children, Amy and Peter to understand the origin of the Christmas customs they had enjoyed every year since they were born. Many were directly handed down from her parents who made each Christmas special even though there was serious illness and not a lot of money. She surprised her children and husband with copies of the book two years ago on Christmas morning.
Now the River Falls resident has published her second book, “Merry Memory Making.” The story is about their Christmases spent in a ski condo in Snowshoe WV. She chose two mice to recount the yearly events that surrounded Christmas with her husband David, their children, Grandma Weatherby and David’s sister, Julie. Whimsical and poignant, the book describes their fun-filled traditions of locating and cutting down the Christmas tree that the family had marked with a long red ribbon at Thanksgiving, creating all the decorations for the tree by hand, and the Christmas Eve baking of povitica, a traditional Croatian pastry made with yeast dough, butter, sugar, cinnamon and nuts. This was always served for breakfast on Christmas morning.
In “Merry Memory Making,” the little mice, Snowball and Grayson live with their mouse family in the ski condo at 6 Pine Cone Court – the one the Weatherby family stayed in every Thanksgiving and Christmas. The mice love it when the family comes, because there is yummy cheese fondue served on Christmas Eve, pieces of popcorn from the garlands the kids made for the tree, and of course the pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies. The mice, particularly chubby Grayson, relish the food and the activity of the visitors.
Throughout the book, Weatherby shares the warmth of their family traditions, the importance of spending meaningful time together and, as wise Snowball says, “Memories come in all sorts of ways.”
“Reliving the memories was the most fun of writing the book,” states Weatherby. “I wanted my kids to realize the reasons our Christmases were so special was because of my parents and who they were. We took the old traditions and added new ones to make our holiday a little different – but it still felt the same as my Christmases long ago. Christmas was a magical time, filled with anticipation and love.”
The cover for “Lynn Marie’s Christmas” was drawn and painted by artist Jacquelyn Jouvenal of Potomac. Jouvenal was able to capture the nostalgia of Weatherby’s childhood Christmas. She painted their living room and the Christmas tree exactly as Weatherby remembered it using black and white photos inherited from her parents. The completed cover painting now hangs above Weatherby’s fireplace. Illustrations were done by Sarah Minikes, also of Potomac.
Local artist Sandy Klingenberg drew the cover and illustrations for “Merry Memory Making.” The cover for the small book depicts the two mice sitting beside the Christmas tree in the ski condo in West Virginia – also drawn from photos and from Weatherby’s memory. Klingenberg has taught art for MCPS and Montgomery College and painted hundreds of paintings and murals for homes in Potomac. All the artists are personal friends of the author.
Both books are Christmas tales which will delight and entertain every young child. They portray all the wonders of Christmas and share the wonderful message of the joy of creating lifelong memories by spending quality time with family. The books are for sale on www.blurb.com
