Sometimes my family business work can be strange. It’s not as if I haven’t worked on
back-to-school projects before, but some days it seems stranger than
others. Today, that was because of a
combination of having to think about going back to school when we’ve barely
started our summer holidays and a little daydreaming about what that might be
like if Michael and I are a couple by then.
Oh, and if you’re interested, the work went pretty well
today too. :^)
My favorite part of this particular retail and manufacturing
event, like with Christmas, has people thinking about kids; and that is always
good for our charity work. This year,
I’m adding some new programs to the mix.
My favorite include some companies that are going to try being the
sponsors for new school projects; and we’re going to match whatever their
fundraising brings in. They’ll be coming
up with the charity drive ideas; and I’m hoping to use the best of them for
other projects in the future.
While my family business work is definitely more important
than anything else I did today, getting to ride bikes and go swimming with
Rowen, Michael, and Tim this afternoon while Michael was on his break from the
Inn was more fun; and so was the play time with Ethan, Ehlana, and Naomi at the
park tonight while Mom and Dad were at their Fix-it Uppers practice.
Our bike riding isn’t going to have us ready to do Hollywood movie bike stunts by the Fourth of July, but
we’re having fun, and the routine is coming together. Today we mostly worked on bunny hops;
climbing up onto different objects; and jumping off of them again. The boys are both a bit better than Rowen and
I are for how high they can make their bikes ‘hop’, but we’re still able to do
all of the tricks; and have a slight edge of our own when it comes to keeping
our bikes balanced when we’re going slow or stopped. Tomorrow we’re going to work on jumps. Tim’s putting something together that will
let us practice at a height that will be the same as what we’ll be jumping from
on the trailer; so that should be fun too.
The river swim cool-off time didn’t last long for Michael
because he needed to get back to the Inn, and Tim left with him to meet up with
Nora; but Rowen and I swam upriver to my house and took Ethan and Ehlana
swimming with us for nearly a half hour.
When Rowen left to meet up with her parents at the store, I helped Mom
with making dinner for six, and the rest of the evening was pretty much a
standard baseball practice night. We
ate; Violet and I cleaned up; and spent a couple of hours playing at the park
before coming home again. I guess the
swim that we all hopped into the river for was an addition to the normal
Wednesday night action; but then we likely will be doing that after practices
and games fairly regularly for the rest of the summer.
Mom did three Magi lessons tonight, and mine was between the
bedtime Magi playtime she had with Ethan and Ehlana and the lesson she did with
Violet and Dillon after he came over from the Inn. They really love getting to work together
now, and Mom is also teaching them how to study together for when they’re away
at college. I don’t know how they’ll
work out doing any lessons while living in dorms like they will be this year;
but they’ll figure something out.
I was in bed before they were done their lesson, but that
was only because I opted for a quick shower and cheated a bit on getting my
hair dried. They were planning on an
early night too, but Violet hasn’t come upstairs yet, so they probably just got
tied up with their goodnight hugs and kisses.
Let’s not go there, since I’m going to be trying to sleep soon; and
don’t need to be thinking about things like that. Rowen and I had a little chat while I was
doing my nightly computing and email checks; and she needed to talk about the
birthday party we’ve got on Friday evening.
With everything else I’ve got coming up over the next week, Joshua’s
birthday party wasn’t something I was thinking much about at all; but Rowen is
getting tired of being on the outside looking in on the tween dating game; and
feels that more now since everything that’s happened with Michael and me.
I’m not going to let things get weird for her around us, and
if our summertime challenge works out; it won’t be long before she’ll be in the
dating game too. As for the party, I
expect that Michael and I will be dealing with more tweeirdness from Vanessa
and Nora; so it could be another strange night for us. Rowen definitely won’t need to worry about us
spending the night hanging out with the couples club and leaving her on her own
– we won’t be invited to play any reindeer games either. :^)
That will give us time to work on that summer challenge,
though, so we might be able to have some fun with that instead.
I’ll talk to Rowen about that tomorrow, but for right now,
I’m ready to put my computer away and get to sleep, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
