While our morning started out really early, Mom, Ethan,
Ehlana, and I had fun spending time with Dad before he left for Crystal
Springs; had a nice little nap together in Mom’s bed; and had a great morning
for Tai Chi by the river before having breakfast and getting ready for the day.
I haven’t been in on the KidZone daycare plans, but Mom is
one of the volunteers who will be helping out while Sharon White is busy with
her new baby. She’ll be one of the women
helping out at the daycare at least until school is out in June. That will be at the daycare most of the time,
but for today, she just had Naomi and Aiden at our house for the day while Colleen
Sparks gets her volunteers lined up and scheduled for while Sharon is off. Mom is going to work one morning a week, and
Grandma will probably be there for a shift on Friday when Ethan and Ehlana are
there too for their weekly visit. It’s
just one more example of what’s great about Witch Falls,
and why Mom and I love it here so much.
I was already on the way to school before Naomi and Aiden
were dropped off, and while Rowen and I were out of the loop for the party news
on the weekend; it was the top Grade Seven story this morning, and Michael and
Vanessa had top billing for the party news.
That wasn’t good for Michael, because he had the audacity to completely
mess up the matchmaking plan that Vanessa and Nora had so carefully come up
with and executed. He was supposed to
fall madly in love with Vanessa, but didn’t; and went out of his way to avoid
Vanessa at the party. The girls didn’t
give up easily, and Nora made sure that her best friend had some quality
opportunities to be close to – or alone with – Michael, but from what we heard
through the grapevine; those efforts only brought Michael about as close to mad
as any of his friends had seen him before.
Vanessa certainly wasn’t happy today, and she and Nora are
trying to decide whether to re-group and come up with a new plan or write
Michael off as a hopeless cause. They’re
both mad at Michael for not falling in line like Tim did with Nora – for the
second time now. I wasn’t in the line of
fire today, but I almost wish that I was, since Michael wasn’t having any fun
at school – especially during Phys-Ed class and at lunch.
Don’t take this the wrong way, because I am not crossing
over, but Rowen and I helped to make up for that crummy school day after
school. We invited Michael and Tim to
come home with us to do our homework and hang out together. That plan morphed into hanging out together
practically until dark except while they were at baseball practice. We had our after-school snack with Mom and
four toddlers, and it was then that we decided to add a picnic at the park for
six and give Mom some time off for herself after spending the day with four
toddlers. We did our homework first; Mom
helped me with throwing the picnic together while Rowen, Michael, and Tim
rounded up bikes and hooked up Ethan and Ehlana’s trailer to my bike. The trailer is definitely handy for carrying
supplies too, and is a lot easier than carrying backpacks while biking.
We did the construction zones tour first, and then had some
playground fun time before having our picnic.
While Mom and I had put most of the food together, Miranda and Jacob had
sent some cold salads along with Michael; and we had quite the little
feast. We started to eat early enough
that we didn’t need to rush; and that gave Michael and Tim time to have a good,
but rather serious chat with us before needing to get to their ball practice.
Rowen would want me to start with her personal favorite part
of that chat, but let’s keep it in context.
It wasn’t really tweeird zone time when Tim started the ball rolling by
telling Michael that hanging out with us was a lot more fun than they’d had on
Friday at Nora’s party, but I was nervous that we might be heading there
fast. They stayed away from the details
we’d already heard about from some of the girls, though, and the only
strangeness was hearing their perspective.
I’m sure that Nora is completely unaware of the fact that Tim is fairly
annoyed with her for helping Vanessa out with her romantic campaign for Michael
– especially since she apparently didn’t want to accept it when he had already
told her several times that Michael was not even remotely interested in being
Vanessa’s next boyfriend.
Tim didn’t try telling Nora any of that – especially on her
birthday. I would have been happy if
he’d kept his advice for Michael to himself too; but he didn’t.
Stop laughing, Rowen.
He and Michael were getting ready to go over to the far ball
diamond, and we were packing up our picnic when he not-so-innocently suggested
that I could solve Michael’s problems with Vanessa by dating him – Michael –
instead.
If I ever find out that Aunt Leanne recruited Tim too; she
and I are going to have a very long chat – and with my time-phase abilities; I
could make it seem like that lasts forever.
I once again proved my incompetence at being a tween, and
Tim apparently found out for the first time that the reason I haven’t dated at
all is because I haven’t crossed over; and don’t intend to just because he
thinks it’d make his best friend’s life easier.
Rowen loved all of that, but Tim’s conversation-ending request that I
let him be the first to know when I do get around to crossing over practically
had Rowen and Michael on the ground they were laughing so hard. I’m glad that one of us took that the way he
meant it, because Tim was right there with them once he caught on to what they
thought was so funny. That’s something
else I’ll guess he won’t talk with Nora about.
Moving along, after cleaning up from our picnic, Ethan
wanted to go and watch Michael and Tim practice for a while, so we did that for
fifteen or twenty minutes before returning to the playground for some more
swing and slide action. Michael and Tim
joined us again after they were finished playing ball; and we all went for a
ride north of town. We meandered our way
along the country roads for an hour or so before heading home again. Michael’s house was our first stop; and we
ended up having drinks on the front porch with Miranda and Jacob; mostly
because Miranda wanted to have a little visit with Ethan and Ehlana.
Rowen came home with me from there, but only so she could
help me with the twins and getting the trailer and bike unhooked and put away
in the storage barn. Mom came outside
while we were doing that, so we did the goodnight hugs in the back yard before
Rowen hopped on her bike and headed on to her house, and Mom, Ethan, Ehlana,
and I went inside to get started on our Magi lessons. It was after eleven by the time we did that
and Ethan and Ehlana were tucked in for the night, so I got a late start to my
studying. Multi-tasking that with some
Jacuzzi time was a requirement after hours of biking and play time – Mandy has
a very sensitive nose; and neither of us wants me bringing playground sand into
our bed. Add in a little computer girl
chat time with Rowen; a few text messages and email with Stephanie; and the
usual nightly computer checks; and I somehow managed to fill up more than three
hours before deciding to write this journal entry up and call it a night.
We’re supposed to have an even nicer weather day tomorrow,
but rain on Wednesday, so Rowen and I are taking the day off from work and
going biking again with Michael and Tim – this time without Ethan and
Ehlana. That decision had absolutely
nothing to do with it being one of Michael’s days off – really! It’s all about taking advantage of the nice
weather whenever we can. Having Alicia
there to help Mom tomorrow makes it easier to do that too while Dad’s away –
especially when she’s taking on the extra work with Naomi and Aiden again
tomorrow before Colleen Sparks will be ready to run KidZone at full speed again
on Wednesday.
Since that’s pretty much it for today, I’m going to move on
and get whatever sleep I can before it’ll be time to get up and going again,
so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
