The plan this morning was for a lot of make-up yard work
after being away last weekend, but the weather did not cooperate; so there was
no gardening or lawn cutting. We did get
all of the housework done, and Dad and I spent a chilly, wet hour outdoors
doing some of the chores we could deal with once the rain mostly stopped for
the day; but it won’t be much fun when we are finally able to get started on
all of the work that’s piling up now. At
the rate the grass is growing with all of this rain, we’ll need scythes to cut
it down to a level the lawn mower can handle.
Anyway, with Alicia here to help us too, and since we
couldn’t do most of the outdoor work, we were finished our chores by
eleven-thirty. We were on our own for
lunch, but then we went over to Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne’s to spend the rest
of the day with them and their family.
My job was to be chief entertainer for Nicole, Ethan, Ehlana, and Naomi
while the adults were mostly busy hanging out and playing with babies Leah and
Robyn. Even though the rain had stopped,
it was far too wet and cold outside to take the younger kids out to play, so we
spent most of our time in the third floor play room. Rowen came over for a couple of hours in the
afternoon, but she had other things to do for the rest of the day.
Even for a Magi Master, keeping up with four busy toddlers
is tough. I had some help with that
during dinner, and a break from the kid action while working on the
after-dinner clean-up crew before being in charge of the evening play time
through until Mom and Dad decided it was time to head home for the night. Liz and Philip took Naomi home then too, but
Aunt Deborah, Uncle Nick, and Leah stayed to visit with their family; since
they won’t have much time to do that tomorrow before they all head home after
lunch.
I helped Mom and Dad with getting Ethan and Ehlana bathed
and into bed; spent some time in my Jacuzzi; played my keyboard for a half
hour; and then I started working on my computer after climbing into bed with
Mandy. The music practice was mostly an
attempt to get the kid songs from Nicole’s favorite shows out of my head.
“We’re chasing a ball of string; through the forest to where
it begins; who knows where it goes; or where it will lead us; we won’t give up
until we find Lucky; let’s chase that string.”
As you can see, the practice didn’t help. I am really, really thankful that my brother
and sister have photographic memories too and they don’t like to watch their
kid shows over and over again like Nicole does.
If you don’t recognize that song, it’s a Dora the Explorer
toddler-favorite from the ‘Mermaid
Kingdom’ DVD. Cue it up and listen at your own risk.
Moving along, I did a bit of studying tonight mostly because
I needed some wind down time. It seemed
to be non-stop action today, and I had fun, but it would have been nice to have
been able to hang out with Rowen and some of our friends; and do more than work
and toddler-level play. I didn’t even
get a chance yet to welcome Rebecca home – she wasn’t home when I popped over
to do that; so that will have to wait until I see her at church.
I missed out on most of the adult chat today too, though Mom
and Dad gave us some of the recap tonight.
In addition to the new baby stories, I guess they’re already working on
summer holiday plans – particularly for the July 4th holiday and the
wedding weekend to follow. That’s going
to be a crazy-busy week; and they still need to do some work to figure out how
we’re going to accommodate everyone plus all of the wedding guests. The summer kid and teen cousin visits aren’t
going to apply to Nicole and Robyn, but it did come up; and those vacation
weeks may be during the two weeks following the long weekend instead of at the
end of July this year. That’s probably
the best time to do that this year anyway – even if it will be extra work on
top of the wedding and holiday weekend action.
Once Aunt Grace and Mark get back from their honeymoon, we’ll be busy
helping them get moved into their new house, and then Mom will want to spend as
much time as she can working with Violet before she and Dillon head off to
college in August.
Thinking about all of that has me wishing that summer was
just a bit closer than it is – and that we could have more nice weather days
instead of so much cold and rain. Six
weeks really isn’t that long, but if it rains all of the time between now and
then; it’ll seem like forever!
I guess that’s about it for today, and I need to try and get
some sleep that hopefully won’t include dreaming about adventures with Dora or
Barbie; though I suppose that’s preferable to anything in the tweeird dream
zone, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
