Double Birthday Hanukkah/Christmas Bash

Michael turned 10 in November; Hadassah turns 5 in January & I only have the motivation to plan one party :) So I invite you & especially your kids if you have any to a double birthday party on Friday December 14th here at our home. We will start the party at noon & go until late that night. I guess it be kind of an open house. Hanuakkah will be over by then but that doesn't mean we can't still have a few latkes & light the menorrah if we want to. (perhaps even listen to the reading of The Flying Latke that Bobby & I recorded for the kids 2 Hanukkah/Christmases ago) My desire for this party is to bless the kids. It has been hard on them without Bobby & these milestones are bitter sweet. So I invite you ALL, grown-ups & kids, to come & celebrate life with us. I ask specifically that each of you would write down either words of wisdom, words of advice, prophetic words, poems or songs, works of art for Michael & Hadassah that I could put into a book for each of them. Something from the Father's heart to theirs. If you can, bring something to share to eat or drink & bring your instruments so we can jam. I hope to have Bobby's drums set up by then, especially after hearing/experiencing the amazing night in SC when Michael was invited to play with the MOW team. wow wow wow wow. a very supernatural, emotional experience for us all. Love, Mimi

MOW Event Worcester, MA 11/28 - ???

Go to the Mountain of Worship link here on my site in my favorites list for more details. Let me know if you want to ride over with us.

New tunes from Mimi, Bob Young, Jeff Reid, Tony Green...

COMING SOON! God has reconnected me with old friends from my Emerald Vein days (SubRosa Records), Berklee & the Vineyard (yes, THAT Tony Green) to record some new/old music. The first to be ready will be "Take Me There", a song I wrote in the late 80s? that Bob Young & Jeff Reid resurrected during this healing journey I've been on. Jeff plays the piano, Tony Green on bass, me on vocals & Bob Young on everything else, producing, engineering. Hope to have this tune & others ready soon for downloadability :) Not sure which service yet. In the meantime, my Floating Deeper CD is available on soundclick.com Look up Mimi Caban. And you find Emerald Vein music by doing a search on the web. It may be with iTunes. I'll have to get that info from Bob & link it to my web site. Thank you for supporting us :)

we are finally home 11/27

we arrived around monday night. had a hard time accessing this blog during our travels for some reason. sorry that i couldn't post updates & some of you, many of you thought we were back in around 11/17. we were supposed to be but i had a hospital stay (just overnight) & van vandalized while in cincinnati which put all of our other plans back. it was all good though. (except the big bill to fix van damage!) because of the delays, we ended up heading past where my dad/mom live right at Thanksgiving time. dad just closed on his new home so we stayed with him, help him unpack a little & spent the holiday with my family. much more to tell but i need a weekend to just write!

CORRECTION: Mimi's new myspace

won't you be my friend? www.myspace.com/opensoaks This is turning out to be a great networking tool. If you are in music, dance, theatre, film, ministry, interested in Darfur, IRIS or what the Banovs are doing...any of the arts, come to myspace & see who's there. Met Charlie Peacock in Chicago & others who are linked to my myspace now. I did mine with a nickname though so unless I invite you to be a friend or you know my name, you can't find me :)

Shabbat shalom from PA...

Sitting here at my brother's house,cleaned leaves from the yard, babysitting my sister's dog :), kids are playing with cousins & making soup. I miss Bobby so much today. As always, shabbat seems to be the hardest day...it was always such a nice restful, family day. Time to do nothing, nap, be together, watch a movie, play a game. Listening to Bruce Hornsby's Intersections DVD collection right now, makes me think of Bobby. We've been having a good time traveling & ealrning new things (the bridge competition in Virginia in early/mid 1800s see Lemuel Chenoweth for more info; learning that oil was first discovered in America in Titusville, PA by a train engineer I think?) Loving our new Shiller Math curriculum...nice to be able to take education on the road :) I love you all...hope someone is reading this. Don't be afraid to post comments here too!