Here we go again with yet another journal entry that starts
with football; and it’s bad news for our team.
We lost the Championship game to Clairmont by a score of twenty-seven to
seventeen. I’m sure that our players,
coaches, and their fans are disappointed tonight, but they did have a
best-since-Lee-Landry-played season; and they’ll have another good team next
year for Kyle’s senior year.
Now we have that out of the way, let’s move on to the more
interesting parts of the day. Football
was still the top story at school today, but the shopping trip was number two,
and for our class; Lily’s birthday party was third. Rowen and I won’t be at her party, since
she’s pretty much doing that with the ‘couples club’ kids, but I’m sure they’ll
have a blast with the dinner and a movie in Crystal Springs that they’ll be
doing after the shopping trip tomorrow.
While doing dinner and a movie at my house was an option
tonight, Rowen and I decided to do a sleepover at her house instead; getting
parental approval for that after school.
Mom and Aunt Leanne were going to be spending part of the night
finalizing the shopping trip anyway, and I got the feeling that Rowen didn’t
really feel like being around cuddling couples tonight either. We did our homework, and played with Ethan
and Ehlana for an hour or so, and then I packed my bag and we went to hang out
at her house until dinnertime. With only
about two and a half weeks to go until Christmas, the stores in town were busy
tonight; so we ended up having dinner at the computer store with Rowen’s
parents; and we helped out for a while too.
Patrick had dinner with Scott, but the boys had suddenly felt the need
to have a sleepover at the Emersons too – coincidentally deciding that about
five seconds after finding out that I’d be staying there with Rowen.
That hasn’t actually been much of a problem tonight, partly
because the boys didn’t come home until Rowen’s parents did after closing the
store; we all went to bed fairly early; and because Rowen and I bribed Patrick
and Scott with chocolate and a half-hour video game competition in exchange for
a zero-prank night. I guess you can
learn a few things from watching your parents, but Patrick could also have just
been taking it easy in case bugging us might endanger his Christmas wish list.
After leaving the boys to continue their gaming, Rowen and I
got ready for bed and we’ve been surfing the web, chatting, and finishing up
our shopping lists for tomorrow. That
might not seem like much fun to a lot of people, but having a big family and
lots of friends to get gifts for still feels brand new to me; and I love all of
it more every year. We did a little
Christmas wishing too, and though I’d really love to give Rowen the one gift
she’d love the most, I can’t; and I seriously doubt that her parents – or his –
would be amused to find him tied up under the Emerson’s tree Christmas morning.
I wonder why I’m suddenly picturing Aunt Leanne thinking
that’s an awesome idea – and getting very, very scared? Let’s not get derailed with that train of
thought.
It’s probably time to wrap this up, and for Rowen and me to
wind down and get some sleep. Tomorrow’s
going to be another one of those best-ever kind of fun days; and we definitely
don’t want to be the first to drop while we shop!
Say ‘goodnight, Cassie’.
“Goodnight, Cassie.”
