Happy 3rd Anniversary, Mom and Dad!
Can you believe it’s been three years already? I’ve now spent nearly a quarter of my life in
Witch Falls.
Give it another five or ten years, and people might even start
forgetting that Mom and I are imports!
Ethan, Ehlana, and I let Mom and Dad sleep in this morning,
and went outside for Tai Chi with Michael without them. Michael stayed and helped me with making
breakfast; and we let Ethan and Ehlana do the wake-up call while we were busy cooking
up eggs and bacon to go with the bakery treats Mom had picked up. We had coffee and juice ready to go too by
the time my parents, brother, and sister joined us; and we sat down to eat
right away.
The traditional gift for third anniversaries is leather, and
while that may work okay for adults; Ethan, Ehlana, Michael, and I opted for
the modern gift option of crystal instead.
For Ethan and Ehlana, that meant a little family of crystal figurines;
while Michael and I had gone with a crystal wind chime for the back porch and a
crystal ball just because we live in Witch Falls and Mom and Dad didn’t have
one.
We weren’t the only ones thinking about crystals and magic
for anniversary gifts because Aunt Leanne gave Mom and Dad a set of magic love
crystals. She apparently had the
traditional leather gift covered too, but she gave that gift directly to Mom;
and I heard enough to be sure that I didn’t need to know exactly what that gift
was. If you’re currently getting mental
pictures involving either or both of my parents and leather, cut it out –
you’re scaring the kids.
Adding in the extra work this morning for cooking and
cleaning up, Michael and I both had to hurry to get cleaned up and dressed for
school once we were finished in the kitchen.
He went home to do that, and I cheated a bit to make enough time for
most of that part of my usual morning routine.
The morning action had me fired up all day, and we had fun at
school. Our study session after that was
in the conference room at Landry’s; and then I needed to get home and take care
of Ethan and Ehlana while Mom spent some quality time with her Jacuzzi and got
appropriately beautiful for the anniversary dinner party at the Inn and her
night out with Dad and their friends.
I was able to do some work in the office while Ethan and
Ehlana worked on their homework, and then I helped them to get ready for dinner
before leaving them to play on my keyboard and in the lounge while I freshened
up a bit and got dressed up a bit too. Rowen’s
parents were on that guest list, and were coming too to hang out with me; so
she came over to wait with me while they were getting ready to go out after
closing the store a bit early. Patrick
was staying with Scott for the night, so he wasn’t at the Inn with us; and
Rowen was doing a sleepover with her grandparents after dinner too so that her
parents could stay out late without getting a babysitter on a school night.
I would have liked to have Michael with us for dinner, but
our party made for a busy night in the kitchen; and he couldn’t really be
spared for more than a little visit with me while we had cake and ice cream for
dessert. We managed to have a few cameo
moments that were pretty good, though, including a goodnight kiss or three in
the back room behind the kitchen when it was time for me to go home with
Grandma, Grandpa, and the twins. He
likely got teased by the other guys after I left, but if that few moments of
alone time was as much of a highlight of the evening for him as it was for me;
he won’t mind all of the razzing.
The dinner and fun time with their friends was probably a
bigger deal for Mom and Dad than it was for me; but then Rowen and I had a
fairly quiet meal with the twins by comparison.
While Mom and Dad had exchanged their gifts this morning, and had gotten
our gifts at breakfast; they still had some little gifts to open at dinnertime
too from the rest of our family and some of their friends. That included some gag gifts that were fun,
and Ethan and Ehlana happily played normal toddler to the max while helping Mom
and Dad with opening those gifts and keeping everyone entertained.
We were the last diners at the Inn
when it was time to leave, and while it was a busy night for Miranda and her
servers; the teens were very happy with the tips that were left for them when
Mom and Dad settled their fairly significant bill. Ethan, Ehlana, and I only did a quick round
of hugs and kisses with our parents, aunts, uncles, and their friends before
going home with Grandma and Grandpa; and then we walked to their house after
grabbing our overnight bags out of the minivan.
There really isn’t much else to write about tonight – at
least fur the action at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. I’m sure we’ll hear a lot about the party at
Sheldon’s, and I’ll be okay without knowing any of the post-party, kid-free
night details for Mom, Dad, or any of the other parents taking advantage of a
night off from their children. It could
be funny if there are any babies born next June, but that really isn’t all that
likely; unless there are some surprises in our collective future that haven’t
been revealed to Ethan, Ehlana, and me yet.
Grandma and Grandpa did a Magi lesson and play time with us
after getting home; our bedtime snack and story took a while; and after Ethan
and Ehlana were tucked in, I went to bed too and got to work on my nightly
computing, studies, and work. I expected
to run out of steam sooner, but it’s ‘only’ coming up on a quarter to two; and
I’m just getting to the point where I’m ready to sleep. There isn’t anything specifically newsworthy
from my studies and work tonight, and though I’ve skipped over some minor
anniversary fun; everything will likely get covered somewhere between our
collective personal journals. For now,
I’m ready to pack up and call it a night, so...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
