Congratulations, Grandma and Grandpa Pastors Burroughs!
Rebekkah Burroughs was born earlier this morning, though not
here in Witch Falls.
Pastor John and his wife, Stacey, have been working as missionaries
pretty much since he earned his Doctorate; and they haven’t lived here at all
since then either. A few of us know
that’s going to change soon because they’re going to move home this summer; and
Pastor John is going to gradually take over from his parents. That’s partly because Pastor John and Stacey
want to raise their kids here; and partly because Pastors Lewis and Martha want
to semi-retire and start doing charity trips for our family business with some
of their friends. They’re also looking
at working together on an addition for the church to get ready for our growing
town. I won’t be directly involved in
much of that, but it is going to be very exciting for the Burroughs’ family.
Here at home, it wasn’t new-baby exciting, but I was busy;
and managed to have some fun too. We had
a dash or two of rain today, but nothing that got in the way of our baseball
practice tonight; and everyone on our team was happy to finally get out on the
ball diamond for the first time this season.
Playing with the older, taller girls is a big change from last year, but
Rowen and I still did pretty well; and Sarah and Carolyn Landry looked like
they were really happy with their junior players.
I jumped ahead with that, but there really isn’t much to
report from school or my second work night in a row. Other than one test, today was mostly a
project work time at school. It’s hard
to believe, but we don’t really have much time to get some major projects
finished before we’ll be getting ready for our final exams. Rowen and I are way ahead on everything we’re
doing, but some of our classmates are getting stressed. There’s nothing new from my end of the family
business to report, and it was another light dinner night so I could eat early
and be at the park in time for my practice at six o’clock.
Mom, Uncle Adam, and Aunt Leanne brought Ethan and Ehlana
over for some playground time during the last half of our practice; and Rowen,
Rebecca, and I walked with them over to the Inn
for game night. Jenny had Shane to hang
out with by then, and preferred to do that over playing games with us.
Aunt Leanne and her matchmaking co-conspirators have me
looking over my shoulder a lot, and I have to wonder if they’ve got a new plan
that I should worry about, but I was happy and relieved that they just let me
have fun tonight – even when Rowen and I were playing games against Michael and
Rebecca. Not having the high school
seniors here gave all of the younger teens and kids a better chance at the
junior championship, and some of the teams moved up in the rankings; but it was
one of the regularly top teams – Kyle Landry and Erin Green – that won the
title for the week. Rowen and I managed
fifth-place; one behind Rebecca and Michael, and well-ahead of Tim and Nora.
Mom wanted to do more lessons with Ethan, Ehlana, and me
after we got home from the Inn, so we did that first; had a bedtime chat and
story with Dad once the twins were ready to be tucked in; and I didn’t get up
to my room until eleven-thirty. It’s a
good thing that I had some extra sleep the last two nights, because it’s now
nearly three o’clock. I may only get to
have a nap now, but at least I finished all of the studying I wanted to get
done; and taking the weekend off – at least until Sunday night – is an option.
That’s the good news.
The bad is that we have a lot to get done this weekend to be ready for
the Memorial Day weekend, and there is lots of rain in the forecast for the
next four days; so we’ll see how much fun we get to have. For right now, though, I really need to get
started on that nap, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
