I’m still going to put tomorrow’s wedding and adoption anniversary at the top of my list; but the general consensus around town is that the top news story of the weekend is Nick and Aunt Deborah’s engagement last night. Aunt Leanne delivered that breaking story early this morning after she and Adam were among the first in his family to find out about it from the happy couple. (Moms, Dads, and siblings were called first) In an early poll of town women and girls; Nick’s birthday proposal is earning high marks for romanticism; though final grading will have to wait until Aunt Deborah can be grilled about the details of their night in the city.
Speaking of nights in the city, Ethan, Ehlana, and I are parentless tonight! Dad sprung that surprise on all of us at lunchtime; advising Mom that they were going away for the night to an undisclosed location, while Grandma and Grandpa would be at our house for a sleepover. They came over by shortly before two, and Mom and Dad were on the road not long after that. If Dad forgot, I’m sure that Mom reminded him that it wasn’t actually possible to go somewhere and hide from their kids. We won’t tell anyone else where they are, but know that they didn’t actually go very far away at all. I hope they have a wonderful, romantic night; and that I’m not around when Aunt Leanne gets Mom to tell her all about it. Even Magi Master kids don’t want or need to know things like that about their parents!
Mom and Dad weren’t the only people in town going away for the night. Dillon worked his usual lunch shift at the Inn today, and then left for Woodvale. He’s staying there overnight, and then will be back in time to work the afternoon buffet shift tomorrow. Violet is both fired up and worried, and anyone that knows Chris and Martin can guess why she might be concerned. I don’t think Dillon will have any problems with my cousins – he’s managed to keep up, and be best friends, with Jake Stone even through what I’ve heard were some very geeky years. If he can do that, Chris and Martin will be easy by comparison.
Rowen came over after lunch, and we stayed there until Mom and Dad left; then were set free to play while Grandma and Grandpa took care of the twins. It’s been another sunny day, but a bit cooler, so we only played at the park for a couple of hours before going home again to get hot drinks and a snack. Ethan and Ehlana had napped while we were gone, and were mid-bottle feeding; having their afternoon bottles a bit later than usual. I put the wards up so we could have a telepathic chat, and after cleaning up from our snack, we went into the living room to watch television for a while until Rowen had to go home, and Grandma and I needed to start cooking dinner.
We’ve had a fairly quiet evening, with the highlight being the cuddle and video time after dinner in the living room. Grandma and Grandpa brought the videos, which were all about the South American countries they’d be visiting on their trip. Ethan and Ehlana were fascinated, and are thinking about asking Mom and Dad to let them go on the trip too – after all, they don’t have to worry about missing school like I would. They did at least concede that there was a logistics problem with going on a month-long trip without your primary source of food; not to mention that they might not be ready to spend a month away from Mom and Dad quite yet.
I was advised that my bottle-feeding services were not going to be needed tonight, so after our bedtime story and snack, I went upstairs to end my day with a little Jacuzzi action before getting into bed with Mandy for our nightly telepathic cat chat, email check, and archive journal update. There wasn’t anything new or newsworthy waiting in my inbox; Mandy’s drifting off to sleep; and I don’t have anything else to write about for today’s journal. I’ll be on my own for Tai Chi in the morning, but that’s still about seven unexpected and wonderfully uninterrupted hours of sleep away; a gift that I am gratefully going to get started on enjoying right now!