Kids should get to have weekend birthdays every year!
Starting the day out with another big breakfast was great,
and then getting to skip the usual Saturday morning chores kept the good times
rolling.
We didn’t have spring-like weather today, but there wasn’t
any rain, and it was still warm enough for biking and spending most of the day
outdoors. Rowen and I really decided to
get away; packed a lunch; and started biking out along River Road. We biked far past the whirlpool, but
eventually returned there to sit and have our lunch before returning to Witch Falls.
That gave us lots of alone time to talk, and Violet’s
breakfast dance report was high on the list for us. We weren’t surprised to find out that both
Rebecca and Stephanie had heard about everything at school, and they’d already
known that Michael was going to give me a gift.
Violet had some ‘inside information’ on that, and since Stephanie was
keeping an eye on Michael at the dance; she also knew how at least the dance
part of the night had gone for him and Lisa.
The good news for both him and me is that roses go a long way to smooth
over tween dating trouble; and Lisa apparently decided not to be mad at him
anymore by the time they got to the dance.
Rebecca advised them that the word among the younger girls was
that my not being there helped too; and though Violet didn’t have the details,
Michael spent an hour or so at Lisa’s after the dance before getting home at
the same time that Violet and Dillon dropped Jake and Stephanie off after they
were finished helping out with the post-dance clean-up. Violet had news about ‘Tommy’ and his
girlfriend too, but Violet didn’t know that news was of any extra significance
for Rowen when she passed it on with the rest of her dance recap. ‘Get a room’, followed sometime later on by
‘but not a school classroom’ should be the only hints you need to know to get
the gist of that part of Violet’s recap.
I’m sure you can guess that Rowen wasn’t thrilled, but that was one of
the reasons why we didn’t want to be there last night.
There were also stories of apparently successful dates, and two
that didn’t go well at all – including one couple from my class. They did an old-style diner theme for the
decorations and set-up that looked cool from the pictures Violet showed us on
her phone, and it sounded like Violet, Dillon, Stephanie, and Jake all had a
great night. Since Violet was both tired
and smiling non-stop this morning; I’ll guess that both the dance and her alone
time with Dillon until whenever she did finally make it upstairs to her room
made for one of those best-ever-so-far kind of date nights.
That’s enough tween and teen news for me, so let’s move
on. Our timing for the ride was good,
since the traffic was mostly heading into town on our way out; and then
outbound by the time we were going west again.
There wasn’t anyone playing on the river today, but there really aren’t
that many people interested in canoeing or swimming the Ridge River
in February.
Ethan and Ehlana were interested in some park play time this
afternoon, so we spent an hour and a half doing that with them after getting
back. Some of our friends were hanging
out there too, and we multi-tasked our playground fun with more Valentine’s
dance news chat. Rowen was particularly
interested to find out that ‘Tommy’ missed his curfew after staying at his
girlfriend’s house about an hour or so too long. We learned more of the details about the
date-gone-bad involving our classmates too; and I’ll guess that will be a
couple that may not still be together by Valentine’s Day. It sounded like the rest of our friends had
as much fun as Violet and her friends did; but Rowen and I are still very glad
that we weren’t there too.
We all went home for the rest of the afternoon once Ethan
and Ehlana decided they’d had enough outdoor action for the day – or it might
have been that Ethan didn’t want to hear any more girl talk. We had a snack break with Mom, Dad, Violet,
and Alicia; then played in the lounge until it was time for Rowen to head
home. Rowen and I entertained my brother
and sister with a music practice that included both keyboards and saxophone for
me while Rowen played along on her flute.
Rowen and Ehlana had fun teasing me a little more about my
second-favorite birthday gift, but Ethan was as ready as I was to drop it and
move on to anything else. I really hope
that does all blow over by the time we go back to school on Monday; but I’m not
holding my breath that it will.
Rowen went home about a half-hour before Mom’s planned
dinnertime, and it’s been a quiet evening around here since then. Violet did a couple of lessons with Mom
today, including one while we were at the park.
She had dinner with us, but then got ready to go out after we’d both
helped with the clean-up; and was off and running again in time to meet up with
Dillon at the Inn before going on to hang out at his house. Mom and Dad spent a couple of hours playing
with Ethan, Ehlana, and me. ‘Normal’
toddler games are just for show around here when we have company. Tonight we played with Ethan and Ehlana’s
science lab for an hour and a half and solved that whole global warming
problem.
Just kidding about the last part of that!
We did have fun, though, and Ehlana continually amazes the
rest of us with just how especially brilliant she is when it comes to the
sciences. I won’t be surprised if she
does solve global warming some day.
I came up to my room for some Jacuzzi time when Mom and Dad
took Ethan and Ehlana up to do bath time with them, but I kept it short enough
that I could still do the bedtime snack and story with them. Mandy and I have been tucked into bed since
ten-thirty; I didn’t really do much of my usual nightly computing before
getting started on this; and I don’t plan on being awake for very much
longer. We don’t really have anything
exciting planned for tomorrow that I need to rest up for, but I’ll be back to
normal school night studies again tomorrow; and a little extra down time
tonight is looking good right now, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
