My new year resolution was to stop posting so much about Keita and baseball (maybe that's why the posts have dried up, my life seems to revolve around baseball these days) but I'm going to break it to have another 'oyabaka' moment so please bear with me!

On Saturday, because I was having all the first year mothers and players back to the house for a party, I intended to have another mother take over from me at lunch time so I could get home and organised but around 11am Setsuo phoned to say that one of the owners from a company he uses had phoned to say that his friend had contacted him to see if he would arrange for him and another man to go and see Keita play and could they go that day around 1.30. It turned out that the 'friend' was a scout from the Yomiuri Giants!! (For those of you not in Japan, the Giants are one of the Major Baseball Teams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomiuri_Giants) so it was both a shock and really exciting! After they had been to the ground, watched Keita (and also Riku) then spoken to the coaches they came back to the office for a coffee. They stayed for about 40 minutes and we had quite a good chat and he said that he'll come back now and again when he's in this area. So, things are really looking good for the pair of them - now we just have to hope they'll continue to improve and be injury-free.

At night, there were about 29 of us for the party and a lot of eating and drinking went on. The majority left around 11pm but there were still 4 of us until just before 3am! The next morning I had to force myself to get up at 7am to get Keita out the door and although I intended going back to bed for a couple of hours, managed to stay awake. By night time I was shattered and I think we were all in bed by about 10.

Kana had her Eiken test on Sunday too - she hadn't really studied for it so I don't know how she'll have got on but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for her.

Other than that, it's really cold just now and we had snow showers both Sat and Sun. Here's hoping it gets a bit warmer!