We woke up to a slushy mess on the ground this morning, and
I again want to know why Mother Nature would end April with summer-like weather
and start May out with freezing cold snow and rain. The jokes are supposed to be on April first.
The top news and action for the family today was having Aunt
Deborah’s brothers and their families come home for the weekend. Kevin and Elaine brought Nicole and Robyn
with them, and Kevin left work early so they could get to Witch Falls earlier
than usual – and mostly to only need to stop for one feeding for Robyn on the
way. Rob and Trish only got here a
couple of hours ago because they couldn’t both get away from work early too.
Thanks to the weather, the buses were running behind getting
the country kids and teens to school, but Principal Jacobs decided to go ahead
with classes as normal; and those of us who were in first class took notes and
extra assignments for our friends who weren’t.
All of the buses made it in before the start of second class.
As we expected, Michael and Rowen were a top story for the
Grade Seven grapevine news network, and while Rowen is the shyest girl in our
class; she was having as much fun with the whole thing as I was. Her favorite parts of that were the
not-so-subtle questions from a couple of the girls, and the range of looks she
was getting from both guys and girls that ranged from baffled through
speculative curiosity to re-assessed interest.
In ‘Tommy’s’ case, I’d classify his reaction as interestingly baffled curiosity. Rowen thought that was very funny.
There isn’t much else to report from our classes today. Michael, Rowen, and I had another rainy-day
music practice at lunchtime, and the afternoon seemed to drag on a bit too long
as we waited to be set free for the weekend.
Rowen and I did our homework first after getting home, but then we were
drafted to help Mom with our contribution to the dinner and a baby night that
Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne were hosting for Aunt Deborah and Uncle Nick.
I hadn’t even seen Leah since going home on Thursday morning
after she was born, and didn’t get to spend much time with her tonight either –
there were just too many other members of her family needing to spend time with
her for that. What Rowen and I did do,
though, was help with dinner and the clean-up; take care of Ethan, Ehlana, and
Naomi; and we eventually added Nicole to our little play group when she got
home with her parents and baby sister.
That’s something that I hadn’t really been thinking about
with all of the new babies being added to our collective family this year, but
it’s going to be cool for Robyn, Leah, and Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne’s baby to
all be the same age. It’ll be cool for
the Witch Falls cousins to be going to school
together too; though that won’t happen until the year after I’m finished high
school. They will have Ethan and Ehlana
just a couple of grades ahead to help them out.
Getting back to the recap from that little side trip, Rowen
was able to stay and play with us until after her parents were ready to take
her home. They’d stopped in after
closing the computer store to get her; but that had mostly been an excuse to
get a chance to meet Leah and congratulate her proud parents and family. Mom, Dad, Ethan, Ehlana, and I stayed until Rob
and Trish got home; but then it was past-time by then for all of us to be in
bed too.
While we were busy with our family, I missed out on getting
to see Rebecca or Jenny when they got home from their trip. Rebecca sent me a short email earlier, but she
hasn’t been online since I fired up my computer after getting into bed with
Mandy; and probably went to sleep early after a long, tiring travel day. With most of her family busy at the Inn anyway, her welcome home didn’t sound all that
exciting anyway. Maybe I’ll get a chance
to dodge the rain and welcome her home in the morning sometime.
That’s about all I have for tonight. It’s going to be a busy weekend; though we’re
basically winging it with no specific plans.
A lot of that will be up to the weather – the rain is supposed to
continue all weekend. Mom, Dad, and I
will be helping Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne as much as we can too, which will
likely mean a lot of younger cousin and sibling play time for me. I don’t expect there to be much time to hang
out with Rowen or any of our friends, but the good news there is that I
shouldn’t run into any major tween drama either.
So far, that even means that I won’t need to not think about
soft, fuzzy bunnies tonight; and that’s a perfect time to try to fall asleep,
so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
