It’s been a fairly quiet day in Witch Falls.
We had a normal Sunday morning with Tai Chi by the river; breakfast for six; and a couple of entertaining hours with our family and friends at church. Lunch was quick and easy, and then Mom, Dad, and Violet all wanted or needed to get some work done in the office; so Ethan, Ehlana, and I met up with Rowen and went to the park to play for a couple of hours.
When we got home from doing that, we had a snack break with Mom and Dad while Violet went to hang out with Dillon during his lunch break before the dinner buffet rush at the Inn. After that, we moved up to the third floor for a movie and Magi chat that Mandy was happy to join us for; and we wrapped that up in time for Rowen to head home to get ready for her family’s dinner plans.
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne came over for dinner with us, and that was mostly so Mom and Aunt Leanne could finalize the shopping trip plans and send out the groups, drivers, and passenger assignments lists for everyone. The final numbers for this shopping adventure is eighty-six shoppers; including twenty-eight adults and fifty-eight kids and teens. That’s mostly girls, but there are a few boys going this year too, including Ethan with Mom; Patrick and Scott with Rowen’s Mom; and Ryan Bassett with his mother and sisters. We’ll see how that works out, but I have a feeling that most of the boys won’t find this trip nearly as much fun as the last Christmas shopping adventure was.
It is going to be a blast for the girls, though, and I need to get to sleep so I’ll be charged up and ready for eight or nine hours of shopping. Mom and Aunt Leanne worked on their plans during and after dinner, and Dad, Uncle Adam, Violet, and I took care of the cleanup. We had time after all of that was done for a little visit in the living room, and then Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne went home; Dad went back to work in the office for a while; and Mom, Violet, and I did the full bath and bedtime routine with Ethan and Ehlana that included a little Magi elements lesson in the tub that made playing in the water a lot of fun for all four of us. Too bad we couldn’t try some of those tricks at the whirlpool!
Anyway, I came up to bed once Ethan and Ehlana were tucked in for the night; and writing this has been the only computing I’ve done other than my usual email check. Grandma sent her daily update email earlier, and it’s hard to believe that their trip is already more than half over. This was a travel day for them, and they’ll be back to work in the morning – a few hours from now their time. They have four more work days, and then four days of sightseeing before making the trip back over two days and getting home a week from Wednesday.
Okay, I think that’s it for now. Time to shut down and get to sleep.
Live from Witch Falls; this is Cassie Proctor, signing off!
