Happy Mother’s Day!
It was an especially happy day for the White family – Sharon
White gave birth to her baby at eight-nineteen this morning. Beth-Anne weighed in at a healthy eight
pounds and eight ounces; and Mom and baby are both already home and doing
great.
Here at home, Mom’s special day wasn’t quite that exciting,
but it did start out with gifts, hugs, and cuddles in bed; followed by Tai Chi at
the river; and some Jacuzzi time while Dad and I took care of making breakfast
and getting Ethan and Ehlana ready for the day.
That few hours this morning was just for us, but the rest of the day has
been all about spending time with our family.
We only had Grandma and Grandpa with us at church, while
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne were both busy at the clinic, but we had a big group
back at our house for lunch and dinner barbeques; and some of our guests spent
the afternoon with us too. There were
lots of friends stopping in for visits too, and we spent most of the afternoon
playing in the back yard; though Rowen and I took a group of younger kids to
the park playground for a while too when she and her family came over for their
visit in between the two family meals they were doing today.
There was a lot going on, and we had a lot of fun today, but
I guess there really isn’t much news-worthy to write about – other than
Beth-Anne’s big first day in the real world.
Lunch was outdoors, but it was cooling off by dinnertime; so we had that
meal in the dining room instead – mostly because we did that late so that Uncle
Adam and his parents could join us after he was able to send Sharon and
Beth-Anne home from the clinic, and Andrew and Christine closed the Emporium
for the day. We didn’t go to one of the
buffets at the Inn because they’re always sold out on Mother’s Day; and we’d
rather let more of our neighbors and friends get to do that instead.
Since we didn’t start having dinner until later; that meant
that I wasn’t finished helping with the clean-up until after eight-thirty. By then, the only guests we had left were
members of the kitchen crew and their spouses.
Aunt Leanne had taken Uncle Adam home right after we ate to tuck him in
for the night after getting almost no sleep last night; and the other Moms with
babies were sent home then too, so that crew included grandfathers, Dads, and
me. The goodbye hugs and kisses started
right away, and we were on our own again for the first time since this morning
by a bit after nine. Getting Ethan and
Ehlana ready for bed was next, and that took nearly another hour by the time
they were finished talking about everything they couldn’t discuss today while
playing ‘normal toddler’. Mom and I took
care of that while Dad packed his bags to be ready for his week in Crystal Springs; but he joined us in time to
tuck the twins in for the night.
I went straight to bed after that, and have been doing my
usual school-night studying. Mom had
wanted to do a Magi lesson with me, but it hadn’t been too tough to talk her
out of that; and we won’t write about what she and Dad have been doing instead. There was some email news from around the
family that was mostly about Mother’s Day events; but Violet’s email actually
reminded me about something that’s happening here at home – the senior high
school class trip.
The annual event hasn’t made my journal reports before now,
and this time I’m only including it because Dillon, Jake, and Stephanie will
all be away for the school week with their classmates and friends. I’ll guess that will be more fun for Jake and
Stephanie than it will be for Dillon.
They’re leaving early tomorrow morning for what will be four nights and
three days at the Grand Canyon; and two days
that will mostly be travel time. That’s
going to give us another week at school with a noticeable percentage of the
students missing; but it won’t be quite as big of a deal for my class; since we
don’t exactly hang with that group at all like we do with our Grade Eight
friends.
I wish that I’d thought about that earlier today, but at
least I did have hugs for all three teens at church today even if I didn’t do
special goodbye hugs with them.
We’ll be up early to see Dad off to the city, so I’d better
wrap this up and get some sleep while I can.
Until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
