Happy Birthday, Aunt Leanne!
I’ll guess that by now she’s having a happier birthday than
I need to know about, but hopefully she liked her birthday breakfast and our
gifts too.
Mom had help for making Aunt Leanne’s big birthday
breakfast, and my contribution was taking care of Ethan and Ehlana while she
was busy. Aunt Deborah and Patricia were
both over early to help out with the cooking, and the rest of our guests were
here by the time Uncle Adam brought Aunt Leanne over. That was a blast of fun, but we didn’t really
have all that long to get through eating, having Aunt Leanne open her presents,
and getting everything cleaned up again before most of us either needed to get
to school or work.
That was an awesome start to the day, and Rowen and I had
fun all day. Halloween is still a bit
more than two weeks away, but with the festival behind us; Halloween was
becoming the top news story around school.
We were happy to talk about that too, except for when it came to who was
doing what with whom for the upcoming school dance or the Haunted Halloween
Walk. That wasn’t the main reason why
Rowen and I were practicing in the music room for most of our lunch hour, but
it was an added bonus.
Yes, Rowen, I’m getting to it right now; and I’m sure that
Aunt Leanne will have lots to say about it when she finds out tomorrow.
We had company in the music room today, and he was
definitely looking for a place to hide from the weird. For Michael, the weird was his best friend
having a girlfriend – which wouldn’t have been a problem if he’d just gotten
with the program that Vanessa and Nora had set up for him and Tim. Having Michael spend that time with us wasn’t
without a bit of weird for me, but we practice during class two or three times
a week, and once we started playing music; all three of us had fun. I think Rowen had a bit too much fun, and may
need to cut back on the time she spends around Aunt Leanne – especially now
that she’s crossed over. Because of
that, until this archive is open for them to read some day; neither of them are
going to know that part of the weird for me included sensing that Michael had
picked hiding in the music room specifically because he knew that’s where I
usually was on Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime.
Big sigh; move along.
The travel plans included getting out of work early, and
that actually worked out, since Mom, Uncle Adam, and Aunt Leanne were on the
way to Crystal Springs before we were out of school following an uneventful
afternoon; and Ethan and Ehlana were with Aunt Deborah. Rowen and I went to the computer store from
school; did our homework; and then I helped Rowen out with her usual Tuesday
night work. We helped out with making
dinner too after getting home, and after dinner; we went to Uncle Nick and Aunt
Deborah’s house for a little play time with Ethan and Ehlana.
The twins were having a blast, and Rowen and I are having a
good night too except for two little problems – Patrick and Scott. We weren’t surprised that Patrick had invited
Scott to stay overnight too, but we were both wishing that we were old enough
to stay at my house on our own by about two hours ago – and they’ve just gotten
more annoying since then. If this was a
practice run for their Halloween monster act; they’ll win the scariest costume
prizes at school for sure – and they won’t even need to dress up!
After getting back from our visit with the twins, we watched
a bit of television with Rowen’s parents until a manly gaming session broke
out; and then we decided that hanging out in Rowen’s room would be more
fun. That’s been true whenever we didn’t
need to deal with the spying, pranks, and regular intrusions from the
boys. We practiced our sax and flute for
a while; played on our computers; and listened to music. I haven’t really done any work, except for
dealing with a couple of family business email, and once I get this done; we’re
going to shut down, get into bed, and hope that Patrick and Scott will leave us
alone for the rest of the night.
I haven’t heard from anyone in Crystal Springs
tonight, but didn’t expect to; and really don’t want to know what my parents or
aunt and uncle are doing now anyway. At
least Dad knew that Mom was going to be there tonight, so maybe he got extra
sleep last night. That’s not anything I
want to be thinking about before going to sleep, so I’m going to wrap this up
now, and hope that Rowen and I are off on some other train of thought by then.
Say ‘goodnight, Cassie’.
“Goodnight, Cassie.”
